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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 4, 1989Portage County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 4, 1989, 4:05 PM EDT for Portage County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 4, 1989, 4:05 PM EDT (20:05 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 1989, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Portage County, OH, Summit County, OH

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 4, 4:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Summit, OH
Aug 4, 4:35 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Portage, OH

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 1198 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 4.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAK 042005
TORCAK
OHC133-153-042100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
405 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
          ...PORTAGE...SUMMIT
 
AT 4PM EDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER WESTERN AKRON
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. TORRENTIAL RAINS AND 1/2 INCH HAIL WERE ALSO
REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
THOMPSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 4:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Trumbull	39 min
Aug 4, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	25 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.