Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 10, 1996, 7:19 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 26 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
- May 10, 1996, 7:19 PM EDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1996, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 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 23:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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
- 414 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 102318 TORCLE OHC169-102345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 719 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...WAYNE COUNTY AT 715 PM NATIONAL WEARTHER DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR NEW PITTSBURG. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND MAY APPROACH THE TOWNS MADISONBURG AND SMITHVILLE. 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. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. JOLLY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 36 min |
| May 9, 8:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 44 min |
| May 9, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 41 min |
| May 10, 1:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 49 min |
| May 10, 1:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Stark | 2 hr |
| May 10, 1:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wayne | 2 hr |
| May 10, 1:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland | 65 min |
| May 10, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 46 min |
| May 10, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 48 min |
| May 10, 4:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 2 hr |
| May 10, 5:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Hancock | 2 hr |
| May 10, 5:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 2 hr |
| May 10, 6:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 2 hr |
| May 10, 7:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Huron | 2 hr |
| May 10, 7:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Medina, Summit | 2 hr |
| May 10, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 43 min |
| May 10, 7:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.