Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1999, 10:15 PM EDT for Wayne 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
- Jul 24, 1999, 10:15 PM EDT (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1999, 11:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 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 24, 10:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Large limbs and power lines downed throughout the county. |
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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 966 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 24, 10:15 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 10:15 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1015 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999 ANOTHER BUSY NIGHT WITH SVR WX FM ORIGINAL BOW ECHO WHICH CAME THRU LK ERIE AND INTO ERN HALF OF CWA. STILL ISSUING, SO WL BE SHORT. KEPT TSTMS IN MST OF FA AS A CHANCE OR SCT OVRNGT. ALTHO AREA OF MN ACTIVITY IS MOVG OUT OF CWA, THERE HAS BEEN BACKWARD DVLPMNT LAST COUPLE OF HRS AND NEWS CELLS ARE FORMING IN LWR MI ATTM. OTHERWISE, NO CHANGES. DEB .CLE...NONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 35 min |
| Jul 24, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 65 min |
| Jul 24, 8:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 47 min |
| Jul 24, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 36 min |
| Jul 24, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 50 min |
| Jul 24, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 35 min |
| Jul 24, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 63 min |
| Jul 24, 9:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 51 min |
| Jul 25, 12:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 12:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 1:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 66 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.