Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 11, 1999Marion County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1999, 4:50 PM EDT for Marion County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 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
Jun 11, 1999, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1999, 5:55 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jun 11, 5:23 PM EDTThunderstorm WindCountywide, OHLarge trees downed countywide. One large tree fell on a car in the village of Meeker.

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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1999-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 75 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1999-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
75 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-210 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron61 min
Jun 11, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion59 min
Jun 11, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron63 min
Jun 11, 5:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHuron2 hr
Jun 11, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford63 min
Jun 11, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.