Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 2:35 PM EDT for Medina County, Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1996, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1996, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Medina County, OH, Wayne County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:40 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Wadsworth, OH | |
| Jun 12, 2:40 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Rittman, OH |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 121835 SVRCLE OHC103-169-121915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 235 PM EDT WED JUN 12 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...MEDINA COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY AT 233 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE MEDINA-WAYNE COUNTY LINE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORM WILL PASS NEAR WADSWORTH AND RITTMAN BY 3 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. LAPLANTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 1:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 55 min |
| Jun 12, 1:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lorain | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 55 min |
| Jun 12, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 37 min |
| Jun 12, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 55 min |
| Jun 12, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 39 min |
| Jun 12, 5:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wood | 115 min |
| Jun 12, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 63 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.