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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 13, 1996Portage County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 11:57 PM EDT for Portage County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 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, 11:57 PM EDT (03:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1996, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Portage County, OH, Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:56 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1481 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 140358
SVRCLE
OHC133-153-140500-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1157 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...PORTAGE COUNTY...SUMMIT COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER
THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH
TOWARDS THE CITIES OF TWINSBURG...STREETSBORO...AND KENT. THESE STORMS
WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...LARGE HAIL...STRONG
WINDS AND DOWNPOURS HEAVY ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLOODING.
 
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.
 
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, 4 hours 13 minutes 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.

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 8:10 PM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

OHZ007>013-019-020-140200-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
810 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTH SHORELINE...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS MOSTLY OVER LAKE ERIE FROM JUST EAST OF SANDUSKY TO
EUCLID. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL BE
ACCOMPANIED BY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL..WINDS GUSTING TO 45 MPH
AND DOWNPOURS HEAVY ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLOODING.  THE MORE INTENSE STORMS
SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE CITY OF LORAIN TO CLEVELAND.

REMEMBER...IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
END/COMEAUX

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 8:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	65 min
Jun 13, 8:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	69 min
Jun 13, 8:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Portage	2 hr
Jun 13, 9:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Summit	2 hr
Jun 13, 9:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	37 min
Jun 13, 9:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Medina	118 min
Jun 13, 10:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	58 min
Jun 13, 11:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain	63 min
Jun 14, 12:31 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	119 min
Jun 14, 3:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wood	42 min
Jun 14, 5:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	41 min
Jun 14, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	50 min
Jun 14, 7:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Richland	117 min
Jun 14, 7:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Wood	115 min

Nearby

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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.