Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1997, 9:42 PM EDT for Hancock County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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, 9:42 PM EDT (01:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1997, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 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 01:43 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.
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, 1.7 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
157 WUUS1 KCLE 220143 RRA SVRCLE OHC063-220230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 942 PM EDT SAT JUN 21 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...HANCOCK COUNTY AT 940 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM SANDUSKY BAY TO NEAR LIMA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND HAVE THE HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND DOWNPOURS HEAVY ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLOODING. THIS STORM WILL PASS OVER THE CITY OF FINDLAY. 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. COMEAUX
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, Jun 21, 9:30 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005-006-220200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 930 PM EDT SAT JUN 21 1997 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR LUCAS...WOOD FULTON AND HENRY COUNTIES. WHILE RAIN AND A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED. TK
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 9:33 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005-006-220200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 930 PM EDT SAT JUN 21 1997 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR LUCAS...WOOD FULTON AND HENRY COU`NTIES. WHILE RAIN AND A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED. TK
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, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 40 min |
| Jun 21, 9:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 41 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 |
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.