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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 8, 1996Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 8, 1996, 4:56 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 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
Aug 8, 1996, 4:56 PM EDT (20:56 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
34 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 21:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 225 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1387 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1387 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 11:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Trumbull58 min
Aug 8, 11:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga36 min
Aug 8, 12:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Stark69 min
Aug 8, 12:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Trumbull57 min
Aug 8, 1:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula45 min
Aug 8, 1:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark49 min
Aug 8, 1:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit27 min
Aug 8, 1:26 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark2 hr
Aug 8, 2:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage64 min
Aug 8, 4:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMorrow66 min
Aug 8, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes68 min
Aug 8, 5:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes, Wayne2 hr
Aug 8, 6:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes, Wayne3 hr
Aug 8, 7:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESummit2 hr

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.