Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Nov 7, 1996, 6:37 PM EST for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 68 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
- Nov 7, 1996, 6:37 PM EST (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1996, 7:45 PM EST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cuyahoga County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 6:50 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 66 | Western Portion, 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1065 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 376 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 072339 RRA TORCLE OHC035-080045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 637 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 635 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO...LOCATED ON THE MEDINA COUNTY-CUYAHOGA COUNTY BORDER NEAR THE CITY OF STRONGSVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO PARMA AND CLEVELAND BY 655 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. END/COMEAUX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 5:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 57 min |
| Nov 7, 5:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Marion, Morrow, Richland | 62 min |
| Nov 7, 5:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 62 min |
| Nov 7, 5:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Knox | 68 min |
| Nov 7, 6:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 63 min |
| Nov 7, 6:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 61 min |
| Nov 7, 6:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 62 min |
| Nov 7, 6:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 63 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.