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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 13, 1996Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 7:45 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Stark County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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 13, 7:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55	Osnaburg Township, 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 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 132346 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC151-140015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
745 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...STARK COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
NEAR THE CITIES HOWENSTEINE AND MAPLETON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH...WILL BE ACCOMPANIED WITH DOWPOURS HEAVY ENOUGH TO
CAUSE FLOODING AND LARGE HAIL.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAV8Y 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.
 
END/COMEAUX

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 7:44 PM EDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
739 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0508 PM    3 NW HOLMESVILLE          OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/13/96   HOLMES                         ROOF BLOWN OFF OF BARN

0723 PM    SE OF LOUISVILLE          OH   65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/13/96   STARK                          24 TO 28 INCH T6OP OF TREE
                                          SNAPPED OFF

MILLER

...CORRECTED LOCATION OF 723 PM REPORT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wood	42 min
Jun 13, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	25 min
Jun 13, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	64 min
Jun 13, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	59 min
Jun 13, 4:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Holmes, Wayne	2 hr
Jun 13, 5:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Summit	2 hr
Jun 13, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	67 min
Jun 13, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	67 min
Jun 13, 6:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Summit	41 min
Jun 13, 6:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	61 min
Jun 13, 7:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Stark, Summit	118 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.