Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1996, 9:39 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 min. 2 reports 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
- Jul 7, 1996, 9:39 PM EDT (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1996, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 9:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Chippewa Twp, OH | |
| Jul 7, 9:45 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Doylestown, 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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 604 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 080138 TORCLE OHC169-080215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 939 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...WAYNE COUNTY AT 936 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A TORNADO JUST EAST OF RITTMAN. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USEB BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. RINGO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Lake | 60 min |
| Jul 7, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 28 min |
| Jul 7, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 57 min |
| Jul 7, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 29 min |
| Jul 7, 10:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 68 min |
| Jul 7, 10:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 10:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 11:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 59 min |
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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.