Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Oct 10, 1989, 4:20 PM EDT for Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 10, 1989, 4:20 PM EDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 10, 1989, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richland 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 895 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 387 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Oct 10, 10:46 AM EDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 1046 AM EDT TUE OCT 10 1989 CINCINNATI WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL THAT EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DAYTON THROUGH CINCINNATI TO NEAR LOUISVILLE AT 1033 AM THIS MORNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH ALL OF SOUTHWEST OHIO...NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA BEFORE 100 PM THIS AFTERNOON. ANOTHER SMALLER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE ACCOMPANIED ALSO BY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM AROUND MAYSVILLE IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY SOUTHWEST TO CYNTHIANA. ALL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. REMEMBER...THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY C8ONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WIND...AND SOME HAVE PRODUCED SMALL HAIL. MEDLIN
Special weather statement, Oct 10, 11:40 AM EDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 1138 AM EDT TUE OCT 10 1989 CINCINNATI WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL THAT EXTENDED FROM CINCINNATI SOUTHWEST TO 10 MILES EAST OF LOUISVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH SOUTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY. SOME SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH DOWNTOWN CINCINNATI. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH CLERMONT COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST OHIO AND KENTON...PENDLETON...GRANT AND OWEN COUNTIES OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY. THESE CINCINNATI TRI-STATE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WIND WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS BETWEEN 1130wAM AND 100 PM EDT. THUNDERSTORM MOVEMENT WAS EAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. MEDLIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 4:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Ashland | 50 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.