Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1997, 6:36 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Sandusky County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 69 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
- Jun 25, 1997, 6:36 PM EDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1997, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ottawa County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Wood County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1601 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
231 WUUS1 KCLE 252238 RRA SVRCLE OHC123-143-173-252345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 636 PM EDT WED JUN 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...OTTAWA COUNTY...SANDUSKY COUNTY...WOOD COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 635 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN WOOD AND OTTAWA COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 64 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.