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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 13, 1996Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 3:33 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 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 13, 1996, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1996, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
42 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 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, 7.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1242 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-37 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 131933 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC173-132015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
333 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 330 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR DOWLING.
THE STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR
PEMBERVILLE...SCOTCH RIDGE AND BRADNER BY 4 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.
 
 
 
REL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland25 min
Jun 13, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne64 min
Jun 13, 4:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes59 min
Jun 13, 4:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes, Wayne2 hr
Jun 13, 5:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESummit2 hr
Jun 13, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes67 min
Jun 13, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit67 min
Jun 13, 6:34 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit41 min
Jun 13, 6:44 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEStark61 min
Jun 13, 7:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark, Summit118 min
Jun 13, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark30 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.