Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1997, 8:25 PM EDT for Henry County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 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 15, 1997, 8:25 PM EDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1997, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henry County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 752 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 160028 RRA SVRCLE OHC069-160130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 825 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...HENRY COUNTY AT 825 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DEFIANCE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND SHOULD MAINLY AFFECT SOUTHERN HENRY COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF CAUSING SOME WIND DAMAGE. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'TF USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Stark | 54 min |
| Aug 16, 7:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Fulton | 53 min |
| Aug 16, 7:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 49 min |
| Aug 16, 8:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 48 min |
| Aug 16, 8:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Fulton | 59 min |
| Aug 16, 8:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Wood | 59 min |
| Aug 16, 8:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 16 min |
| Aug 16, 9:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 9:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 9:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 53 min |
| Aug 16, 10:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 69 min |
| Aug 16, 10:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 36 min |
| Aug 16, 10:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 56 min |
| Aug 16, 10:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 68 min |
| Aug 16, 11:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 64 min |
| Aug 16, 11:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 61 min |
| Aug 16, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 45 min |
| Aug 16, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 54 min |
| Aug 16, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 49 min |
| Aug 16, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 57 min |
| Aug 16, 4:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lorain | 33 min |
| Aug 16, 4:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Geauga | 38 min |
| Aug 16, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 4:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lorain, Medina | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Fulton, Lucas | 67 min |
| Aug 16, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Knox | 62 min |
| Aug 16, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 45 min |
| Aug 16, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 61 min |
| Aug 16, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 59 min |
| Aug 16, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake | 56 min |
| Aug 16, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 65 min |
| Aug 16, 5:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lorain | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 51 min |
| Aug 16, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Medina | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 5:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 42 min |
| Aug 16, 5:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Medina | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Seneca | 69 min |
| Aug 16, 6:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 66 min |
| Aug 16, 6:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 6:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 59 min |
| Aug 16, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lorain, Medina | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 6:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wayne | 61 min |
| Aug 16, 6:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 7:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 7:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 48 min |
| Aug 16, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 45 min |
| Aug 16, 7:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland | 49 min |
| Aug 16, 7:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Wayne | 67 min |
| Aug 16, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox, Richland | 64 min |
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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.