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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 12, 1996Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 3:50 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 1996, 3:50 PM EDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1996, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 312 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
312 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 121950
SVRCLE
OHC093-122045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
350 PM EDT WED JUN 12 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...LORAIN COUNTY
 
AT 347 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN
LORAIN COUNTY NEAR KIPTON. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH
AND WILL MOVE NEAR OBERLIN...GRAFTON AND WELLINGTON BY 430 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 1:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain55 min
Jun 12, 1:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELorain2 hr
Jun 12, 2:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Wayne40 min
Jun 12, 3:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula, Geauga2 hr
Jun 12, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood37 min
Jun 12, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne55 min
Jun 12, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland32 min
Jun 12, 5:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull39 min
Jun 12, 5:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWood115 min
Jun 12, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.