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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 14, 1996Wood County, Ohio

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 14, 4:10 AM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Southeast, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1996-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1111 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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/BC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning65 min
Jun 13, 8:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina69 min
Jun 13, 8:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMahoning, Portage2 hr
Jun 13, 9:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESummit2 hr
Jun 13, 9:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull37 min
Jun 13, 9:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMedina118 min
Jun 13, 10:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning58 min
Jun 13, 11:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain63 min
Jun 13, 11:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Summit63 min
Jun 14, 12:31 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEPortage, Summit119 min
Jun 14, 5:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie41 min
Jun 14, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky50 min
Jun 14, 7:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLERichland117 min
Jun 14, 7:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWood115 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.