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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 31, 1989Ottawa County, Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1989, 8:25 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min. 2 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: May 31, 1989, 8:25 PM EDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 1989, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Ottawa County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 31, 8:43 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Wood, OH
May 31, 8:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Ottawa, 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. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 144 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1419 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 704 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.3
Supercell composite: -1.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 010025
SVRTOL
OHC123-173-010130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
ISSUED BY CLEVELAND OH
825 PM EDT WED MAY 31 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN NORTHWEST OHIO
          ...OTTAWA...WOOD
 
AT 820 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
TOLEDO TO DEFIANCE. AS THE STORMS MOVED THROUGH TOLEDO THEY PRODUCED
WINDS TO 60 MPH AND DOWNED TREES AND UTILITY LINES. THE STORMS WERE
MOVING EAST AT AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL BE TO THE PORT CLINTON AREA
AROUND 915 PM EDT.
 
PEOPLE IN BOWLING GREEN AND OAK HARBOR SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER
NOW.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF DRAINAGE
SYSTEMS. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORN4ADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	67 min
May 31, 9:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	57 min
Jun 1, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	60 min
Jun 1, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	38 min
Jun 1, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	55 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.