Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1989, 2:16 PM EDT for Henry County, Ohio. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1989, 2:16 PM EDT (18:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1989, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henry 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
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KTOL 221822
SVRTOL
OHC069-221915-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
216 PM EDT THU JUN 22 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST OHIO
...HENRY
AT 208 PM EDT THE HENRY COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A
TRAILER WAS DAMAGED ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF LIBERTY CENTER.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST-SOUTEAST AT 10 MPH.
TORRENTIAL RAINS WITH THIS STORM MAY ALSO CAUSE FLOODING OF
STREAMS AND ROADS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL.h..DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 11:51 AM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
UPDATED SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR OHIO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1150 AM EDT THU JUN 22 1989 THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF OHIO THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. LATE THIS MORNING... TEMPERATURES WERE INCREASING AND MOISTURE WAS PLENTIFUL ACROSS THE LOWER GREAT LAKES. THIS MORNINGS UPPER AIR ANALYSIS SHOWED VERY COLD AIR ALOFT. THIS WILL COMBINE WITH THE WARM AND MOIST AIR AT THE SURFACE TO ALLOW SOME THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON TO BECOME SEVERE. THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL... BUT STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. SINCE MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WILL BE SLOW... TORRENTIAL RAINS OF AN INCH OR MORE COULD ALSO OCCUR. ECKERT
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 11:51 AM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 1144 AM EDT THU JUN 22 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS FORMING RAPIDLY OVER NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 1140 AM RADAR INDICATES SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING OVER THE DISTRICT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS PRESENTLY EXTEND FROM CENTRAL LAKE ERIE...NORTHWEST OF PRESQUE ISLE BAY...SOUTHWESTWARD THRU WESTERN ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS WHICH WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS AND CAUSE RISES ON AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS. SOME STORMS WILL ALSO CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTING...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. SMALL BOATERS ON LAKE EIE AND PRESUQE ISLE BAY SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. PARRISH
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 12:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 1230 PM EDT THU JUN 22 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 1230 PM RADAR INDICATES SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM CENTRAL LAKE ERIE...NORTHEAST OF PRESQUE ISLE BAY... SOUTHWESTWARD INTO ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND ON INTO NORTHEAST OHIO. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WHERE LOCATED OVER THE LAKE...NORTH OF ERIE...AND IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF CRAWFORD COUNTY. MOVMENT WAS TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS WHICH WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS...A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF RAIN FE LL AT THE AIRPORT DURING THE PAST HOUR. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. SMALL BOATERS ON LAKE ERIE AND PRESUQE ISLE BAY SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. PARRISH
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:24 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 124 PM EDT THU JUN 22 1989 AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER FULTON COUNTY BETWEEN WAUSEON AND DELTA THIS AFTERNOON. AT 120 PM EDT... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF DELTA. THE STORM DEVELOPED QUITE RAPIDLY AND IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS.. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. THE STORM APPEARED TO BE MOVING VERY SLOWLY EAST SOUTHEAST. RESIDENTS IN SOUTHEAST FULTON COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. COVERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 8:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 16 min |
| Jun 22, 2:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Henry | 116 min |
| Jun 22, 4:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 3 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.