Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1996, 6:59 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 31 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 4, 1996, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wood County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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 4, 7:09 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Weston, 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 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 042300 TORCLE OHC173-042330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 659 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...WOOD COUNTY AT 657 PM EDT...THE WOOD COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT SPOTTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR CUSTAR IN SOUTHWEST WOOD COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STORM NEAR CUSTAR. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE TOWNS OF JERRY CITY AND NORTH BALTIMORE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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. BARJENBRUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 64 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.