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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 12, 1996Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 4:38 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 37 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, 4:38 PM EDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 1996, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Wood County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 122038
SVRCLE
OHC173-122115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
438 PM EDT WED JUN 12 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 437 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE TOWN
OF WAYNE IN SOUTHEAST WOOD COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25
MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF RISING SUN AND BRADNER.
 
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.
 
 
WOODWORTH

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, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina, Wayne	40 min
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, 4:50 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1996 Every 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.