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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 17, 1997Lucas County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1997, 11:16 PM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 44 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 17, 1997, 11:16 PM EDT (03:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 1997, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Lucas County, OH

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 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 17, 11:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Toledo, 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 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 356 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 180318 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC095-180400-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1116 PM EDT THU JUL 17 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...LUCAS COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 1115PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND DETECTED A
POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY
MICHIGAN. THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL ENTER LUCAS
COUNTY ALONG AND EAST OF TOLEDO BY 1120PM.
 
 
 
 
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
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
MILLER

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 17, 8:22 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
822 PM EDT THU JUL 17 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1125 PM    TOLEDO                    OH   WIND DAMAGE
07/17/97   LUCAS                          MANY LARGE BRANCHES DOWN
                                          ON THE EASTSIDE OF TOLEDO.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion, Wyandot	58 min
Jul 18, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	39 min
Jul 18, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	65 min
Jul 18, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.