Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1989, 4:25 PM EDT for Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1989, 4:25 PM EDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1989, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Huron County, OH
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 1983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 032026
SVRCLE
OHC077-032130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
425 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
...HURON
AT 424 THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORM
MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST HURON COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH AND WILL EFFECT THE TOWNS OF WILLARD... NORWALK AND NEW LONDON.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF DRAINAGE
S$YSTEMS. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
ECKERTWhat 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:51 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 255 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1989 A TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWESTERN QUARTER OF OHIO AND THE WESTERN BASIN OF LAKE ERIE UNTIL 500 PM EDT. A FLOOD WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES OF NORTHERN OHIO FROM 300 PM EDT UNTIL 800 PM EDT. A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 220 THIS AFTERNOON FOR LAKE ERIE FROM MAUMEE BAY TO VERMILION. URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNINGS WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR LUCAS AND WOOD COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM AND FOR WILLIAMS COUNTY UNTIL 315. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BROUGHT SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAINS TO NORTHWESTERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. SOME STREET FLOODING OCCURED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY CROSSED NORTHERN INDIANA THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS HAVE HIT NORTHWESTERN OHIO WITH THESE STORMS. PEOPLE ACROSS ALL OF OHIO WILL HAVE TO KEEP A WATCH FOR DANGEROUS WEATHER THIS AFTERNOOON AND EVENING. THE AIR IS BECOMING MORE UNSTABLE STATEWIDE...AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE BEFORE THE DAY IS DONE. PEROUTKA
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:52 PM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
CORRECTED SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 155 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1989 A TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWESTERN QUARTER OF OHIO AND THE WESTERN BASIN OF LAKE ERIE UNTIL 500 PM EDT. A FLOOD WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES OF NORTHERN OHIO FROM 300 PM EDT UNTIL 800 PM EDT. A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 220 THIS AFTERNOON FOR LAKE ERIE FROM MAUMEE BAY TO VERMILION. URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNINGS WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR LUCAS AND WOOD COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM AND FOR WILLIAMS COUNTY UNTIL 315. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BROUGHT SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAINS TO NORTHWESTERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. SOME STREET FLOODING OCCURED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY CROSSED NORTHERN INDIANA THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS HAVE HIT NORTHWESTERN OHIO WITH THESE STORMS. PEOPLE ACROSS ALL OF OHIO WILL HAVE TO KEEP A WATCH FOR DANGEROUS WEATHERQ THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE AIR IS BECOMING MORE UNSTABLE STATEWIDE...AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE BEFORE THE DAY IS DONE. PEROUTKA CORRECTED TIME IN THE HEADER.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 239 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1989 A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE NORTHWEST 3/4 OF OHIO UNTIL ELEVEN TONIGHT. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE CITES OF CLEVELAND... AKRON... COLUMBUS... ZANESVILLE... DAYTON AND CINCINNATI. THIS WATCH ALSO INCLUDES ALL OF LAKE ERIE. A SECOND TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWESTERN QUARTER OF OHIO UNTIL FIVE THIS EVENING. A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES OF NORTHERN OHIO UNTIL 800 PM EDT. A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING WILL IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 220 THIS AFTERNOON FOR LAKE ERIE FROM MAUMEE BAY TO VERMILION. URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR WILLIAMS COUNTY UNTIL 315. CURRENT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRON TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM LAKE ERIE'S WESTERN BASIN TO NEAR CINCINNATI. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH HENRY COUNTY A BARN WAS DESTROYED A HALF MILE SOUTH OF HOLGATE. SMALL HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED IN MANY AREAS OF NORTHWEST OHIO. OTHER STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER INDIANA AND MOVING EAST BEHIND THE FIRST LINE. THESE WILL MOVE INTO OHIO SHORTLY AFTER THE FIRST ONE. THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLED WITH THE STORM IN PARTS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA. PEOPLE ACROSS ALL OF OHIO WILL HAVE TO KEEP A WATCH FOR DANGEROUS WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE AIR IS BECOMING MORE UNSTABLE STATEWIDE...AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE BEFORE THE DAY IS DONE. PERSONS IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGH GROUND QUICKLY IF STREAMS OR RIVER START RISING. FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS IS LIKELY AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS PASS. ECKERT
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
CORRECTED SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 249 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1989 A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE NORTHWEST 3/4 OF OHIO UNTIL ELEVEN TONIGHT. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE CITES OF CLEVELAND... AKRON... COLUMBUS... ZANESVILLE... DAYTON AND CINCINNATI. THIS WATCH ALSO INCLUDES WATERS OF LAKE ERIE WHICH ADJOIN OHIO. A SECOND TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWESTERN QUARTER OF OHIO UNTIL FIVE THIS EVENING. A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES OF NORTHERN OHIO UNTIL 800 PM EDT. A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING WILL IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 410 THIS AFTERNOON FOR LAKE ERIE FROM MAUMEE BAY TO CLEVELAND. URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR WILLIAMS COUNTY UNTIL 315. CURRENT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM LAKE ERIE'S WESTERN BASIN TO NEAR CINCINNATI. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH HENRY COUNTY A BARN WAS DESTROYED A HALF MILE SOUTH OF HOLGATE. SMALL HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED IN MANY AREAS OF NORTHWEST OHIO. OTHER STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER INDIANA AND MOVING EAST BEHIND THE FIRST LINE. THESE WILL MOVE INTO OHIO SHORTLY AFTER THE FIRST ONE. THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLED WITH THE STORM IN PARTS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA. PEOPLE ACROSS ALL OF OHIO WILL HAVE TO KEEP A WATCH FOR DANGEROUS WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE AIR IS BECOMING MORE UNSTABLE STATEWIDE...AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE BEFORE THE DAY IS DONE. PERSONS IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGH GROUND QUICKLY IF STREAMS OR RIVER START RISING. FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS IS LIKELY AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS PASS. PEROUTKA CORRECTED AREAS FOR TORNADO WATCH AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:33 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MANSFIELD OH 335 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH AND FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM EDT... AT 330 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORWALK SOUTHWEST TO UPPER SANDUSKY IN WYANDOT COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE TO CRAWFORD COUNTY BY 345 PM EDT... THEN TO RICHLAND AND ASHLAND COUNTIES BEWTEEN 4 AND 430 PM EDT. THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVED ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO EARLIER THIS EVENING. THEY ALSO CAUSED DAMAGE IN HENRY COUNTY. BANYAS
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:44 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 344 PM EDT THU JUN 3 1989 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF OHIO UNTIL 5 PM EDT AND ANOTHER TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF THE NORTHWEST THREE QUARTERS OF OHIO UNTIL 11 PM EDT. THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE OHIO WATERS OF LAKE ERIE. THE PART OF OHIO NOT INCLUDED IN THE WATCHES ARE THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST AND EXTREME SOUTH. CITIES NOT IN THE WATCHES ARE YOUNGSTOWN... ATHENS... WEST UNION... PORTSMOUTH AND MARIETTA. AT 335 THIS AFTERNOON RADAR SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST OFF CLEVELAND'S SHORE TO UPPER SANDUSKY THEN INTO INDIANA. OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE SOUTHWEST QUADRANT OF OHIO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN... HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS OCCURRED IN OHIO SINCE THREE THIS AFTERNOON. FLOODING FROM THE HEAVY RAIN HAS OCCURRED OVER NORTHWEST OHIO... AND WILL LIKELY SPREAD ACROSS THE REST OF NORTHERN OHIO INTO TONIGHT. BECAUSE OF THIS A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN OHIO THROUGH TONIGHT. URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING WILL OCCUR WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS... THEN LATER TONIGHT MAJOR RIVERS IN NORTHERN OHIO COULD GO ABOVE FLOOD. PERSONS LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS OF NORTHERN OHIO SHOULD KEEP WATCH ON STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THEIR AREAS. BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGH GROUND IF FLOODING BEGINS. PERSONS ACROSS MOST OF OHIO... SHOULD ALSO KEEP A WEATHER EYE TO THE SKY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF SEVERE WEATHER STRIKES. ECKERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Henry | 38 min |
| Jun 3, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 67 min |
| Jun 3, 3:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 67 min |
| Jun 3, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 54 min |
| Jun 3, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca, Wyandot | 41 min |
| Jun 3, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.