Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1997, 9:29 PM EDT for Lucas County, Ottawa County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 min. 3 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
- Aug 3, 1997, 9:29 PM EDT (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1997, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lucas County, OH, Ottawa County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 10:00 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Richfield Center, OH | |
| Aug 3, 10:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Maumee, OH | A tree was downed on a house. |
| Aug 3, 10:12 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Toledo, 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 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 467 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 040133 RRA SVRCLE OHC095-123-040230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 929 PM EDT SUN AUG 3 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...LUCAS COUNTY...OTTAWA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 925 PM EDT A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED ON DOPPLER RADAR OVER LENAWEE AND MONROE COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STRONG...DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRbING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. VRCEK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Fulton | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 10:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 10:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky | 68 min |
| Aug 3, 11:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 69 min |
| Aug 4, 2:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 2:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Seneca, Wood | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.