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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 6, 1990Carroll County, Holmes County, Tuscarawas County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1990, 4:27 PM EDT for Carroll County, Holmes County, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 6, 1990, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 1990, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Tuscarawas 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1990-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 58 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1990-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-206 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
691 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 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 KCAK 062027
SVRCAK
OHC075-157-019-062130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
427 PM EDT THU SEP 6 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
          ...HOLMES...TUSCARAWAS
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
          ...CARROLL
 
AT 420 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM NEAR SALEM TO WAYNESVILLE TO MILLERSBURG OHIO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
30 MPH.
 
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 2:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron, Lorain42 min
Sep 6, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga30 min
Sep 6, 3:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne54 min
Sep 6, 3:09 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEGeauga36 min
Sep 6, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula40 min
Sep 6, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull67 min
Sep 6, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Stark, Summit60 min
Sep 6, 4:05 PM EDTTornado WarningCLETrumbull55 min
Sep 6, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning65 min
Sep 6, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning60 min
Sep 6, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEBelmont42 min
Sep 6, 7:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain57 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.