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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 13, 1996Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 4:31 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 59 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 13, 1996, 4:31 PM EDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 5:08 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 60Holmesville, OH
Jun 13, 5:40 PM EDTHail 0.75Millersburg, 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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, Pittsburgh, PA 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 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 132031
SVRCLE
OHC075-132130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
431 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...HOLMES COUNTY
 
AT 428 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
SHREVE IN SOUTHWESTERN WAYNE COUNTY. THE STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 25 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR HOLMESVILLE AND MILLERSBURG
BETWEEN 435 PM AND 5 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 13, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood42 min
Jun 13, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland25 min
Jun 13, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.