Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1997, 8:25 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 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
- Aug 16, 1997, 8:25 PM EDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1997, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holmes County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 8:28 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Many trees were downed. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 3957 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 819 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.5
- Supercell composite
- 26.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
519 WUUS1 KCLE 170026 RRA SVRCLE OHC075-170115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 825 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...HOLMES COUNTY AT 825 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN HOLMES COUNTY NEAR NASHVILLE AND HOLMESVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE MILLERSBURG...KILLBUCK AND FARMERSTOWN. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 54 min |
| Aug 16, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 61 min |
| Aug 17, 12:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wood | 46 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.