Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1996, 3:33 AM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 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 14, 1996, 3:33 AM EDT (07:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1996, 4:15 AM 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 07:33 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 14, 4:10 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Southeast, 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 140733 SVRCLE OHC173-140815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 333 AM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...WOOD COUNTY AT 330 AM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BOWLING GREEN. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE MAY OCCUR WITH THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTdIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 14, 1:33 AM EDT, 2 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
135 AM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0458 PM WOOSTER OH ST. RTE. 3 SOUTH OF
06/13/96 WAYNE WOOSTER FLOODED
0508 PM 3 NW HOLMESVILLE OH WIND DAMAGE
06/13/96 HOLMES ROOF BLOWN OFF OF BARN
0540 PM MILLERSBURG OH DIME SIZE HAIL
06/13/96 HOLMES
0723 PM SE OF LOUISVILLE OH 65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/13/96 STARK 24 TO 28 INCH TOP OF TREE
SNAPPED OFF
0515 PM RICHFIELD OH FLOODING OVER INTERSTATES
06/13/96 SUMMIT 77 AND 271
0550 PM SHERVE OH LARGE LIMBS DOWN
06/13/96 WAYNE
0550 PM MILLERSBURG OH FLOODING OF ROADWAYS
06/13/96 HOLMES
0655 PM UNIONTOWN OH DIME SIZE HAIL
06/13/96 STARK
0917 PM SPRINGFIELD TWP OH 3 FEET OF WATER COVERING
06/13/96 SUMMIT ROADS
0955 PM NORTON OH 1 INCH OF RAIN MEASURED
06/13/96 SUMMIT IN 15 MINUTES
1006 PM CRAIG BEACH OH FLOODING OF BASEMENTS AND
MAHONING ROADS
0930 PM CHIPPEWA LAKE OH SEVERAL TREES DAMAGED WEST OF
06/13/96 MEDINA RTE 162...TREES UPROOTED 2 MI
WEST OF LAKE
1021 PM SEBRING OH STREET FLOODING
06/13/96 D MAHONING
1210 AM STREETSBORO OH NICKEL SIZE HAIL
06/14/96 PORTAGE
1235 AM TWINSBURG OH CONSIDERABLE FLOODING
06/14/96 SUMMIT
END/BCThe 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 13, 11:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 12:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 119 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.