Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1997, 9:52 PM EDT for Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 53 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
- Apr 30, 1997, 9:52 PM EDT (01:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 1997, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lucas County, OH, Wood County, OH
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 10:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Toledo, OH | Near Maumee Bay, winds estimated at 60 miles per hour downed power lines, blew a temporary sign off a bridge, and left a few branches lying in roads. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -452 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 321 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 540 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 010153 RRA SVRCLE OHC095-173-520-521-010245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 952 PM EDT WED APR 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...LUCAS COUNTY...WOOD COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 950 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN HENRY COUNTY JUST EAST OF NAPOLEON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 60 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL HIT THE TOWNS OF BOWLING GREEN IN WOOD COUNTY AND WATERVILLE IN LUCAS COUNTY BY 1000 PM. 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 DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. WOODWORTH
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 8:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>009-017>019-027-028-010500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 830 PM EDT WED APR 30 1997 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST OHIO TIL 1 AM EDT. SOME CITIES IN THIS WATCH ARE TOLEDO...FINDLAY AND NORWALK. A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHEAST INDIANA AND THEY WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO BY 930 PM AND THE TOLEDO AREA BY 1030 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED SOME SEVERE WEATHER IN INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN HAVE LARGE HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. PEOPLE IN WATCH AREA NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF N EEDED. KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 8:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>009-017>019-027-028-010500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 830 PM EDT WED APR 30 1997 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST OHIO TIL 1 AM EDT. SOME CITIES IN THIS WATCH ARE TOLEDO...FINDLAY AND NORWALK. A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHEAST INDIANA AND THEY WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO BY 930 PM AND THE TOLEDO AREA BY 1030 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED SOME SEVERE WEATHER IN INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN HAVE LARGE HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. PEOPLE IN WATCH AREA NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF NEEDED. KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 25 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.