Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 14, 1996Sandusky County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1996, 4:55 PM EDT for Sandusky County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 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, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Sandusky County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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, 4:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Fremont, 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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1177 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 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 142055
SVRCLE
OHC143-142145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
455 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...SANDUSKY COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NORTH OF FREMONT IN CENTRAL SANDUSKY COUNTY. THIS STORM IS
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF VICKERY AND
CLYDE.
 
 
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 UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
MILLER

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 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, 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, 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.