Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Cleveland, OH

Issued

Aug 16, 1997, 10:49 AM EDT (14:49 UTC)

Expired

Aug 16, 1997, 11:45 AM EDT

In force

56 min

Issued by

NWS Cleveland, OH

Area

Whole counties

County Geauga County, OH

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:52 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.

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WUUS1 KCLE 161450 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC055-161545-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1049 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...GEAUGA COUNTY
 
AT 1045 AM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST
GEAUGA COUNTY NEAR CHESTERLAND AND CHARDON MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE BURTON AND HUNTSBURG.
 
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.
 
SEM

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.