Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1997, 9:56 PM EDT for Hancock County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 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
- Jul 8, 1997, 9:56 PM EDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1997, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, OH, Wood County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 10:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Tontogany, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1617 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 090202 RRA SVRCLE OHC173-OHC063-090245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 956 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...WOOD AND HANCOCK COUNTIES DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST WOOD COUNTY NEAR CUSTER MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HIGH WINDS AND HAIL. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DEB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 10:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Hancock, Henry, Wood | 119 min |
| Jul 8, 10:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca, Wyandot | 49 min |
| Jul 8, 10:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 63 min |
| Jul 9, 12:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Hancock | 117 min |
| Jul 9, 12:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Wyandot | 64 min |
| Jul 9, 1:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 32 min |
| Jul 9, 2:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 115 min |
| Jul 9, 3:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 2 hr |
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.