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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 3, 1989Henry County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1989, 2:07 PM EDT for Henry County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 1989, 2:07 PM EDT (18:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1989, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 38 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, 6.1 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.

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: 370 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 860 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTOL 031809 RRA
TORTOL
OHC069-031845-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
207 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHWEST OHIO
          ...HENRY
 
AT 206 PM EDT A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS REPORTED TWO MILES SOUTH OF
HAMLERIN HAMLER IN HENRY COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH.
 
 
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO
A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE.  AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR hPILLOWS.
 
ELH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	65 min
Jun 3, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.