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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 26, 1997Ashland County, Ohio

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 26, 9:44 PM EDTHail 0.75Mohicanville, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 26, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1997-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 273 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1997-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 162 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 8:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow60 min
Jul 26, 8:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland68 min
Jul 26, 8:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox46 min
Jul 26, 9:19 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEKnox41 min
Jul 26, 9:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow53 min
Jul 26, 9:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEKnox2 hr
Jul 26, 10:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion52 min
Jul 26, 10:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMarion, Morrow3 hr
Jul 27, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox44 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.