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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 8, 1997Seneca County, Wyandot County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1997, 10:41 PM EDT for Seneca County, Wyandot 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, 10:41 PM EDT (02:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 1997, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Seneca County, OH, Wyandot County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 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, 11:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Carey, 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 180 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 702 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

088 
WUUS1 KCLE 090245 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC147-175-090330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1041 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...SENECA COUNTY...WYANDOT COUNTY
 
AT 1042 PM CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATEDA DEVELOPING SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM SOUTHWEST OF TIFFIN IN SENECA COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING
EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
 
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.
 
 VRCEK

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, 9:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Wood	49 min
Jul 8, 10:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Hancock, Henry, Wood	119 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.