Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1997, 7:22 AM EDT for Fulton County, Ohio. It was in force for 53 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 16, 1997, 7:22 AM EDT (11:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1997, 8:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 161123 RRA SVRCLE OHC051-161215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 722 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...FULTON COUNTY AT 720 AM...CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WESTERN FULTON COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WILL REACH WAUSEON BY 800 AM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 65 min |
| Aug 16, 2:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Stark | 54 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 |
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.