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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 20, 1997Fulton County, Lucas County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1997, 11:18 PM EDT for Fulton County, Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 1997, 11:18 PM EDT (03:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1997, 12:15 AM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fulton County, OH, Lucas County, OH

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 124 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1997-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 660 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1997-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 183 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
660 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-167 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1410 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

582 
WUUS1 KCLE 210319 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC051-095-210415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1118 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 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...LUCAS COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 1119 PM CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
LENAWEE COUNTY IN MICHIGAN. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THE STORM WILL CROSS MUCH OF FULTON COUNTY AND ENTER WESTERN LUCAS
COUNTY BY 1140 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
DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 11:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHenry56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.