Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1997, 8:48 PM EDT for Portage County, Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 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, 8:48 PM EDT (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1997, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Portage County, OH, Trumbull County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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, 9:10 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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1973 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1287 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
034 WUUS1 KCLE 260049 RRA SVRCLE OHC133-155-260145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 848 PM EDT WED JUN 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...PORTAGE COUNTY...TRUMBULL COUNTY AT 848 PM DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SUMMIT COUNTY THAT WILL MOVE ACROSS PORTAGE AND TRUMUBLL COUNTIES. WIND DAMAGE HAS OCCURRED WITH SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SO FAR THIS HEAVY. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO OCCUR. 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. FMK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 52 min |
| Jun 25, 8:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Medina, Portage, Summit | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 48 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.