Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Cleveland, OH

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
653 PM EST SAT JAN 7 1989

A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL
AND SOUTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 11 PM EST.

AT 645 PM WEATHER RADAR WAS INDICATING A BAND OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS NEAR FORT WAYNE TO INDIANAPOLIS TO NORTH
OF EVANSVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 40 MPH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO
THE WATCH AREA BY 9 PM.

AROUND 6 PM EST 1 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN PERU INDIANA.

THUNDERSTORMS COULD BRUSH EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO THIS
EVENING... THESE COULD CONTAIN STRONG WINDS AND HAIL.

A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES IN
AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE
ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND GO TO SAFE SHELTER
IF CONDITIONS WARRANT.

KIELTYKA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
755 PM EST SAT JAN 7 1989

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL
AND SOUTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 11 PM EST.

AT 745 PM WEATHER RADAR WAS INDICATING A BAND OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHEAST OF MUNCIE... THROUGH THE INDIANAPOLIS
AREA TO NEAR EVANSVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 45 MPH. SOME OF THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR MUNCIE AND 40
MILES SOUTHWEST OF INDIANAPOLIS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COULD
MOVE INTO THE LIMA AND ST. MARYS AREAS OF WEST CENTRAL OHIO
BY 9 PM.

A BAND OF SHOWERS WERE MOVING THROUGH CINCINNATI THIS EVENING.

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN OHIO AS OF 745 PM.
HOWEVER... A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA... NORTH
OF EVANSVILLE AT 7 PM EST. LARGE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR PERU
INDIANA AT 6 PM EST.

PEOPLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO
SAFETY IF THREATENING0 WEATHER MOVES IN.

KIELTYKA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
852 PM EST SAT JAN 7 1989

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL
AND SOUTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 11 PM EST.

AT 845 PM WEATHER RADAR WAS INDICATING A BAND OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF WESTERN OHIO AND EASTERN INDIANA.
SOME OF THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE SOUTHEAST OF INDIANAPOLIS...
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND SHOULD REACH WEST
CENTRAL OHIO INCLUDING DAYTON...SIDNEY AND LIMA AREAS AROUND 10 PM.

A NARROWER BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER WESTERN
INDIANA AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT THAT WAS CAUSING THE THUNDERSTORMS.

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN OHIO AS OF 845 PM.
HOWEVER... SEVERAL TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN SOUTHWEST
INDIANA THIS EVENING... A FEW REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL HAVE
BEEN REPORTED IN CENTRAL INDIANA ALONG WITH NUMEROUS REPORTS OF
WINDS GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH.

PEOPLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO
SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER MOVES IN.

KIELTYKA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND EVENING OHIO WEATHER STORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
955 PM EST SAT JAN 7 1988

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO WESTERN OHIO THIS EVENING
AND A TORNADO WATCH WAS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST
CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 11 PM EST.

AS OF 955 PM NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN OHIO... HOWEVER...
SEVERAL REPORTS TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN INDIANA... IN THE
SOUTHWEST AND OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF THAT STATE. MANY REPORTS
OF SMALL AND LARGE HAIL ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH HAVE
ALSO BEEN REPORTED IN INDIANA.

SOME OF THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST AND EAST
CENTRAL INDIANA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

ANOTHER BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WESTERN INDIANA
JUST AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT THAT WAS CAUSING THE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS.

THE COLD FRONT SHOULD MOVE INTO WESTERN OHIO AFTER MIDNIGHT AND REACH
THE EASTERN COUNTIES BY SUNRISE. AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL BE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS... HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. ANY SEVERE
WEATHER IN OHIO OVERNIGHT SHOULD BE ISOLATED. PEOPLE ANYWHERE IN OHIO
AND ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER AND MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF CONDITIONS WARRANT.

AFTER THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH TEMPERATURES WILL DROP OFF RAPIDLY AND
THE WINDS WILL BECOME WEST AND QUITE GUSTY. WINDS GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH
ARE POSSIBLE AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH. PEOPLE SHOULD BE SURE
THEY DID NOT LEAVE ANY LOOSE OBJECTS OUTSIDE.

AFTER A WARM AND DRY DAY WITH HIGHS RANGING FROM THE UPPER 50S TO MID
60S AT MOST LOCATIONS... TEMPERATURES ON SUNDAY WILL FALL INTO THE 20S
AND IT WILL BE WINDY... SO IT WILL FEEL EVEN COLDER.

SEVERAL HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE BROKEN TODAY. SO FAR TODAY THE
TEMPERATURE HAS REACHED 58 AT FINDLAY WITH BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 56
SET IN 1965. IN ZANESVILLE THE HIGH OF 61 BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 54
SET IN 1946. IN MANSFIELD THE HIGH OF 58 BREAKS THE RECORD OF 53 FIRST
SET IN 1965.

ON THE EVENING WEATHER MAP LOW PRESSURE WAS OVER WISCONSIN WITH A COLD
FRONT ACROSS ILLINOIS TO LOUISIANA. THE LOW WILL MOVE NORTH OF LAKE
HURON BY MORNING WITH THE COLD FRONT ACROSS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. HIGH
PRESSURE WILL BE BUILDING INTO THE MIDWEST SUNDAY.

KIELTYKA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH
1043 PM EST SAT JAN 7 1989

STRONG WINDS AND ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH
NORTHEASTERN OHIO BETWEEN 3 AND 7 AM SUNDAY MORNING.

AT 1030 PM THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN OHIO AND INDIANA WERE MOVING
QUICKLY NORTHEAST.  WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH WERE COMMON WITH THESE STORMS
AND SOME LARGE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN INDIANA.

TEMPERATURES WILL SPEND MUCH OF THE EARLY MORNING HOURS IN THE 50S...
UNTIL THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARRIVE.  BY DAYBREAK TEMPERATURES
WILL HAVE FALLEN INTO THE 30S AND INTO THE 20S BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
THE WIND CHILL DURING THE DAY SUNDAY WILL MAKE IT FEEL EVEN COLDER.

THE UNSEASONABLE WEATHER IS THE RESULT OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT.
WARM AIR AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED IN AHEAD OF THE FRONT... AND AFTER
THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING IT WILL TURN MUCH COLDER.{}
KOSARIK

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1050 PM EST SAT JAN 7 1988

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A LARGE PART OF
WESTERN AND CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 3 AM EST.

THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO IS NO
LONGER IN EFFECT... THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TAKES IT
PLACE.

AT 1045 PM RADAR WAS SHOWING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE
WESTERN HALF OF THE STATE. SOME OF THE STRONGEST STORMS
WERE LOCATED FROM NORTH OF MANSFIELD... NORTHWEST OF COLUMBUS
TO THE DAYTON AREA. THE THUNDERSTROMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT
45 MPH.

THESE STORMS HAVE CAUSED GUSTY WINDS. SOME TREES AND POWER LINES
HAVE BEEN REPORTED KNOCKED DOWN IN HANCOCK AND ALLEN COUNTIES
OF NORTHWEST OHIO.
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THIS WEATHER IS BEING CAUSED BY A COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE INTO
WESTERN OHIO AFTER MIDNIGHT. GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH
WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE FRONT IS LIKELY.

PEOPLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED IF SEVERE
WEATHER THREATENED YOUR AREA.

KIELTYKA