Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Cleveland, OH

Issued

Aug 16, 1997, 11:11 AM EDT (15:11 UTC)

Expired

Aug 16, 1997, 12:15 PM EDT

In force

64 min

Issued by

NWS Cleveland, OH

Area

Whole counties

County Trumbull County, OH

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:15 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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TTAA00 KCLE 161512 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC155-161615-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1111 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...TRUMBULL COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED POSSIBLE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN A LINE ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN GEAUGA COUNTY. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWESTERN TRUMBULL COUNTY BY 1130 AM.
TREES HAVE BEEN REPORTED DOWN AS THEY MOVED THROUGH THE CLARIDON AREA OF
GEAUGA COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
 
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.
 
DEB
 
 
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In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
1054 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 1997

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

0830 AM    SWANTON                   OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/16/97   FULTON                         NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN

1035 AM    OBERLIN                   OH   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/16/97   LORAIN

1050 AM    CHARDON                   OH   60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/16/97   GEAUGA

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
1054 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 1997

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

0830 AM    SWANTON                   OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/16/97   FULTON                         NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN

1035 AM    OBERLIN                   OH   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/16/97   LORAIN

1050 AM    CHARDON                   OH   60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/16/97   GEAUGA

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.