Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1989, 6:21 PM EDT for Henry County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1989, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1989, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 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, 10.4 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
- 1064 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1016 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 KTOL 242223
SVRTOL
OHC069-242315-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
621 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST OHIO
...HENRY
AT 615 PM EDT... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A VERY HEAVY
THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME NORTHERN HENRY COUNTY NEAR NAPOLEON. THE
STORM WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY EAST.
...REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASSIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...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 24, 5:40 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 539 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 1989 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BEGAN POPPING UP ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHWEST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON AND HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL IN LOCALIZED AREAS AS A RESULT. AT 525 PM EDT... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO IN THE VICINITY OF SWANTON.. ARCHBOLD.. MONTPELIER AND BRYAN OHIO. THE STORM NORTH OF SWANTON WAS PRODUCING LIGHTNING QUITE FREQUENTLY AS OBSERVED FROM TOLEDO EXPRESS AIRPORT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLY CAUSING SOME MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS AS THEY MOVE EVER SO SLOWLY EAST. ANYONE OUTDOORS IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE CAREFUL AND STAY CLEAR OF HIGH OBJECTS WHICH COULD STIMULATE A LIGHTNING STRIKE. BOATERS IN LAKE ERIES WESTERN BASIN SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNSERSTORMS DURING THE REST OF THE AFTERNOOJN AND EARLY EVENING. KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE SKY AND LEAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO RETURN SHORE IF STORMS DEVELOP IN YOUR AREA. COVERT
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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.