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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 21, 1997Hancock County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1997, 9:05 PM EDT for Hancock County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 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 21, 1997, 9:05 PM EDT (01:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1997, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Hancock County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 21, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1325 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1233 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

934 
WUUS1 KCLE 220106 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC063-220145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
905 PM EDT SAT JUN 21 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...HANCOCK COUNTY
 
AT 9PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER HANCOCK COUNTY NEAR THE CITY BENTON RIDGE. THIS STORM
WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL EFFECT THE TOWNS OF FINDLAY AND
ARCADIA. THESE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY DOWNPOURS.
SKYWARN OBSERVERS IN BENTON RIDGE REPORTED TREES DOWN 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.
 
COMEAUX
 
&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 8:20 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Fulton, Henry, Lucas	3 hr
Jun 21, 9:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	60 min
Jun 21, 9:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	41 min
Jun 21, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	48 min
Jun 21, 9:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron, Seneca	59 min
Jun 21, 9:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	59 min
Jun 22, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	55 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.