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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 21, 1989Columbiana County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 1989, 8:59 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 16 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 1989, 8:59 PM EDT (00:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1989, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Columbiana 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 296 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: 481 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KYNG 220104
TORYNG
OHC029-220115-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH
859 PM EDT WED JUN 21 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN YOUNGSTOWN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
          ...COLUMBIANA
 
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN NEW WATERFORD HAS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
NEAR NEW WATERFORD MOVING NORTH.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE AND PROTECT YOUR
HEAD AND CHEST. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE SEEK SHELTER ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. PUT AS MANY WALLS AS POSSIBLE BETWEEN YOURSELF AND
THE STORM. AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 2:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Henry	59 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.