Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1997, 3:56 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports 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, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1997, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wood County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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, 4:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Countywide, OH | |
| May 18, 4:04 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Bowling Green, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1368 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
121 WUUS1 KCLE 181958 RRA SVRCLE OHC173-182045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 356 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...WOOD COUNTY AT 355 PM EDT CLEVELAND DOPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN WOOD COUNTY NEAR MILTON CENTER. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST 30 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE POSSBLE WITH THIS STORM 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Wyandot | 65 min |
| 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, 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.