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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 6, 1997Geauga County, Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1997, 2:24 AM EDT for Geauga County, Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 1997, 2:24 AM EDT (06:24 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 1997, 3:30 AM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Geauga County, OH, Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 6, 3:00 AM EDT	Hail 0.75	Welshfield, OH

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2371 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 482 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

647 
WUUS1 KCLE 060626 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC055-155-060730-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
224 AM EDT TUE MAY 6 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...GEAUGA COUNTY...TRUMBULL COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN GEAUGA COUNTY SOUTH OF BURTON AT 220 AM EDT. THIS STORM
IS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL PASS NEAR MESOPOTAMIA IN
TRUMBULL COUNTY AND TO THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE LINE NEAR 300 AM EDT.
 
THIS STORM WILL CONTAIN FREQUENT LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58
MILES PER HOUR AND HAIL.
 
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
MILLER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Fulton	30 min
May 5, 8:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	39 min
May 6, 12:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	17 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.