Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1990, 6:18 PM EDT for Belmont County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1990, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1990, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Belmont 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCAK 062218
SVRCAK
OHC013-062300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
618 PM EDT THU SEP 6 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
...BELMONT
AT 610 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MI NORTH OF
BARNESVILLE MOVING SE AT 30 MPH.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
NWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Sep 6, 1:45 PM EDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
OHZ002-003-011-061900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 145 PM EDT THU SEP 6 1990 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES OF OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 140 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM NORWALK TO WILLARD IN HURON COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RADAR ALSO INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM LONDON TO ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLEVELAND. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO BY 230 PM. A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR LAKE ERIE FROM FAIRPORT HARBOR TO RIPLEY UNTIL 330 PM EDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS... HAIL CAND HEAVY RAIN. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DEVELOPING AND MOVING ACROSS OHIOS LAKESHORE COUNTIES THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN OHIO SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 1:49 PM EDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
PAZ001-02-062000 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 140 PM EDT THU SEP 06 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS HEADING TOWARD THE PENNSYLVANIA LAKESHORE... AT 140 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER LAKE ERIE...EXTENDING FROM JUST SOUTH OF PORT BURWELL...ONTARIO WESTWARD TO THE CENTRAL PORTION OF LAKE ERIE. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA LAKE SHORE AREA AROUND 230 PM EDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...WIND GUSTS TO 50 MILES AN HOUR AND POSSIBLE HAIL. BOATERS ON LAKE ERIE SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR SOON AS THESE STORMS APPROACH THE LAKESHORE.
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 2:47 PM EDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
PAZ001-02-062100 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 245 PM EDT THU SEP 06 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS JUST NORTH OF THE PENNSYLVANIA LAKESHORE... AT 240 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM LONG POINT ONTARIO TO THE SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE ERIE OF NORTHEAST OHIO. THE LINE OF LINE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD REACH THE PENNSYLVANIA LAKESHORE BY 3PM EDT AND NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY SHORTLY AFTER 330 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE WIND GUSTS TO 60 MILES AN HOUR AS THEY MOVE THROUGH NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. PEOPLE LIVING IN ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN INDOORS AS THESE STORMS MOVE INTO YOUR AREA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ERIE...CRAWFORD AND VENANGO COUNTIES UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING. TJP/RR
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 2:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 250 PM EDT THU SEP 06 1990 PAZ001-02-062100 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 245 PM EDT THU SEP 06 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS JUST NORTH OF THE PENNSYLVANIA LAKESHORE... AT 240 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM LONG POINT ONTARIO TO THE SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE ERIE OF NORTHEAST OHIO. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD REACH THE PENNSYLVANIA LAKESHORE BY 3PM EDT AND NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY SHORTLY AFTER 330 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE WIND GUSTS TO 60 MILES AN HOUR AS THEY MOVE THROUGH NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. PEOPLE LIVING IN ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN INDOORS AS THESE STORMS MOVE INTO YOUR AREA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ERIE...CRAWFORD AND VENANGO COUNTIES UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING. TJP/RR
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 5:44 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
OHZALL-062300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 543 PM EDT THU SEP 6 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE EASTERN THIRD OF OHIO UNTIL 8 PM. AT 530 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL OHIO. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER HARRISON AND SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS EASTERN BELMONT COUNTY BY 640 PM. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SOUTHERN LORAIN COUNTY... WHILE MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT AFFECT OHIO THIS EVENING WILL BE CAPABLE OF CAUSING DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL... AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. PEOPLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR SUCH CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO GO TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATING WEATHER APPROACHES. HILTBRAND
Local storm report, Sep 6, 6:16 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA
615 PM EDT THU SEP 06 1990
STORM REPORT FOR THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1990
TIME EDT EVENT
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330 PM EDT POWER LINES DOWN NEAR CRANESVILLE IN ERIE CO PA.
345 PM EDT POWER LINES DOWN NEAR LINESVILLE IN CRAWFORD CO PA.
354 PM EDT SKYWARN OBSERVER REPORTED 1.25 INCHES OF RAIN IN
15 MIN AT LINESVILLE IN CRAWFORD CO PA.
405 PM EDT POWER LINES AND LARGE TREES DOWN ON PARK AVE IN
MEADVILLE IN CRAWFORD CO PA. BY EMA AND SKYWARN.
ALSO SOME STREET FLOODING.
415 PM EDT 1.75 INCHES OF RAIN IN 30 MIN AT LINESVILLE PA.
425 PM EDT ESTIMATED WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH WITH POWER LINES
DOWN AT FRENCH TOWN IN CRAWFORD CO PA. ALSO LARGE
TREES.
425 PM EDT LARGE TREES DOWN...POWER LINES DOWN AND STREET
FLOODING IN DOWNTOWN MEADVILLE IN CRAWFORD CO PA.
530 PM EDT POWER LINES DOWN...ALSO SOME TREES...NEAR FRANKLIN IN
VENANGO CO PA.
RRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Lorain | 42 min |
| Sep 6, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 30 min |
| Sep 6, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 54 min |
| Sep 6, 3:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Geauga | 36 min |
| Sep 6, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 40 min |
| Sep 6, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 67 min |
| Sep 6, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit | 60 min |
| Sep 6, 4:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 55 min |
| Sep 6, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 65 min |
| Sep 6, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 60 min |
| Sep 6, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Carroll, Holmes, Tuscarawas | 63 min |
| Sep 6, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.