Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1997, 9:09 PM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 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 26, 1997, 9:09 PM EDT (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1997, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashland County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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 26, 9:44 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Mohicanville, 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 26, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 871 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 270110 RRA SVRCLE OHC005-270215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 909 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ...ASHLAND COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF THE CITY OF ASHLAND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH TOWARD HAYESVILLE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMGING WIND ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO AR SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. KOSARIK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 60 min |
| Jul 26, 8:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 68 min |
| Jul 26, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 46 min |
| Jul 26, 9:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Knox | 41 min |
| Jul 26, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 53 min |
| Jul 26, 9:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 2 hr |
| Jul 26, 10:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 52 min |
| Jul 26, 10:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 44 min |
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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.