Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1999, 6:00 PM EDT for Ashland County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min. 3 reports 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 9, 1999, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1999, 7:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashland County, OH, Medina County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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 9, 6:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Trees downed across the entire county with the most concentrated damage in the northwest corner near Ruggles and Nova. A male of unknown age was injured by flying debris while camping at a campground in Nova. Fallen trees resulted in a major railroad track b |
| Jul 9, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Lodi, OH | A tornado touched down briefly in Lodi doing some structural damage. Roofs and siding were torn off of several homes with dozens of trees also downed. An amateur radio tower was knocked and the metal roofing of a local business was peeled off. Many trees |
| Jul 9, 6:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Chippewa On The Lake, OH | A series of macrobursts began on the west side of Chippewa Lake and moved east to Wadsworth resulting in a nearly continuous line of damage. Two homes were destroyed, 16 others suffered major damage and 40 homes suffered minor damage. Of the two homes that |
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 9, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3156 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 092201 RRA SVRCLE OHC005-103-139-092305- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 600 PM EDT FRI JUL 9 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO MEDINA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO RICHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 705 PM EDT * AT 559 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTH OF NORWALK OR 8 MILES WEST OF RUGGLES... MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... RUGGLES LODI ADARIO MANSFIELD ASHLAND MEDINA SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ ACR
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.
NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 9, 2:55 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:55 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 255 PM EDT FRI JUL 9 1999 OZFCLE AVBL. PUSHED TO GET WRK COPY AVBL IN CASE WE GET INTO BOX SITUATION BEFORE ISSUANCE. MCD JUST OUT OF SPC CALLS FOR PSBL BOX IN LOWR MI FOR ACTIVITY BHND FNT. CELLS DVLPG NICELY WITH FNT IN NE INDIANA. SVR STILL PSBL, BUT WL LV OUT OF ZONES UNLESS WE END UP WITH A WATCH. LI'S ON SFC PLOTS -6 TO -7 THIS HR WITH DWPTS MSTLY IN LWR 70S. FNT MAY SLO DOWN TNGT AND FOR SRN SXNS OF FA, CUD END UP WITH WDLY SCT SHWRS INTO SAT MRNG AND INCLUDED 30%. NRN SXNS DRY. COOLER AND DRIER REST OF SAT THRU THE EXTENDED (WED). DEB .CLE...NONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 64 min |
| Jul 9, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Seneca | 64 min |
| Jul 9, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 66 min |
| Jul 9, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 67 min |
| Jul 9, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Wyandot | 63 min |
| Jul 9, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 65 min |
| Jul 9, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lake | 63 min |
| Jul 9, 5:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Huron | 66 min |
| Jul 9, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga | 63 min |
| Jul 9, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 65 min |
| Jul 9, 6:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lorain, Medina | 66 min |
| Jul 9, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 64 min |
| Jul 9, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 62 min |
| Jul 9, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 62 min |
| Jul 9, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 63 min |
| Jul 9, 6:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 66 min |
| Jul 9, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Stark | 63 min |
| Jul 9, 6:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage | 66 min |
| Jul 9, 7:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 63 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.