Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1997, 3:35 PM EDT for Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 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 29, 1997, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1997, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Seneca County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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 29, 3:40 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1193 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
944 WUUS1 KCLE 291936 RRA SVRCLE OHC147-292015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 335 PM EDT SUN JUN 29 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...SENECA COUNTY AT 335 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHWEST OF TIFFIN. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWN OF TIFFIN BY 4PM. LARGE HAIL IS INDICATED 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 60 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.