Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Cleveland, OH

Issued

Aug 16, 1997, 8:46 AM EDT (12:46 UTC)

Expired

Aug 16, 1997, 9:45 AM EDT

In force

59 min

Issued by

NWS Cleveland, OH

Area

Whole counties

Counties Ottawa County, OH, Wood County, OH

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 161247 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC123-173-161345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
846 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...OTTAWA COUNTY...WOOD COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 845 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WOOD AND OTTAWA COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE
MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH. STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE INDICATED
WITH THESE STORMS.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...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.

In the hours before

OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-171200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
445 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 1997

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA INDICATES THAT THERE
IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT OVER
NORTHERN OHIO AND FOR ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA.

THE BEST CHANCE FOR THE SEVERE STORMS WOULD BE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY
TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS DAMAGING WINDS.

THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS BEING FUELED BY A VERY WARM AND
HUMID SOUTHWEST FLOW OF AIR COUPLED WITH AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE
TRAVERSING THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO...OR CABLE
TELEVISION...INCLUDING THE WEATHER CHANNEL...FOR THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION.

HILTBRAND

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.