Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 4, 1997Henry County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1997, 2:26 AM EDT for Henry County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 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 4, 1997, 2:26 AM EDT (06:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 1997, 3:15 AM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Henry County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

429 
WUUS1 KCLE 040629 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC069-040715-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
226 AM EDT MON AUG 4 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...HENRY COUNTY
 
AT 225 AM EDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
OVER EASTERN DEFIANCE COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STORM MAY
AFFECT HOLGATE AND NEW BAVARIA. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DONT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
VRCEK

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 4, 12:28 AM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
1228 AM EDT MON AUG 04 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1000 PM    RICHFIELD CENTER          OH   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/03/97   LUCAS

1012 PM    TOLEDO                    OH   .75 INCH HAIL
08/03/97   LUCAS                          NUMEROUS REPORT ACROSS THE
                                          CITY

1040 PM    PERRYSBURG                OH   .75 INCH HAIL
08/03/97   WOOD

1105 PM    HELENA                    OH   .75 INCH HAIL
08/03/97   SANDUSKY

1154 PM    REPUBLIC                  OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/03/97   SENECA                         LARGE TREE LIMB DOWN

Local storm report, Aug 4, 12:31 AM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
1228 AM EDT MON AUG 04 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1000 PM    RICHFIELD CENTER          OH   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/03/97   LUCAS

1012 PM    TOLEDO                    OH   .75 INCH HAIL
08/03/97   LUCAS                          NUMEROUS REPORT ACROSS THE
                                          CITY

1040 PM    PERRYSBURG                OH   .75 INCH HAIL
08/03/97   WOOD

1105 PM    HELENA                    OH   .75 INCH HAIL
08/03/97   SANDUSKY Z

1154 PM    REPUBLIC                  OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/03/97   SENECA                         LARGE TREE LIMB DOWN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 9:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Ottawa	61 min
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, 2:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky, Seneca, Wood	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1997 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.