Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1997, 3:10 PM EDT for Marion County, Wyandot County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 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 18, 1997, 3:10 PM EDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1997, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marion County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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 18, 3:35 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Meeker, 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 181909 SVRCLE OHC101-175-182015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 310 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...MARION COUNTY...WYANDOT COUNTY AT 310 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL HARDIN COUNTY MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL FELL OUT OF THIS STORM OVER SOUTHWEST HARDIN COUNTY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVYR RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. VRCEK/WOODWORTH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 49 min |
| May 18, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 59 min |
| May 18, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 30 min |
| May 18, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 49 min |
| May 18, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 67 min |
| May 18, 4:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 48 min |
| May 18, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Richland | 56 min |
| May 18, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 46 min |
| May 18, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 42 min |
| May 18, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 45 min |
| May 18, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 57 min |
| May 18, 5:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 67 min |
| May 18, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 55 min |
| May 18, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 33 min |
| May 18, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 40 min |
| May 18, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 53 min |
| May 18, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 49 min |
| May 18, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 38 min |
| May 18, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 36 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.