Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1997, 11:24 PM EDT for Fulton County, Henry County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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, 11:24 PM EDT (03:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1997, 12:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 11:32 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 58 | Ridgeville Corners, OH | |
| May 18, 11:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta, 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, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -791 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 450 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
231 WUUS1 KCLE 190325 RRA SVRCLE OHC051-069-190415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1124 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...FULTON COUNTY...HENRY COUNTY AT 1122 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WILLIAMS COUNTY INTO NORTHEAST INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 10:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Trumbull | 64 min |
| May 18, 11:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 43 min |
| May 18, 11:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 53 min |
| May 18, 11:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Wood | 50 min |
| May 19, 12:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca, Wyandot | 63 min |
| May 19, 12:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky | 63 min |
| May 19, 12:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 62 min |
| May 19, 12:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Marion | 68 min |
| May 19, 12:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 115 min |
| May 19, 12:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 65 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.