Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1990, 4:54 PM EDT for Harrison County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1990, 4:54 PM EDT (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1990, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harrison 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1266 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 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 292057
SVRCAK
OHC067-292200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
454 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
...HARRISON
WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CADIZ IN
HARRISON COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PAcSSED.
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, Jun 29, 11:57 AM EDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
OHZ004-007-DDHHHH- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 1200 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 1990 SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE AFFECTING EASTERN OHIO FROM THE NORTHEAST CORNER TO ALONG THE OHIO RIVER IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO. AT 1150AM EDT RADAR INDICATED AND AREA OF SHOWERS AND A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 40 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM ERIE PA. TO PARKERSBURG WV. AN AREA OF MODERATE RAIN WAS INDICATED ALONG THE RIVER FzROM NEAR WHEELING TO PARKERSBURG WV. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST ABOUT 30 MPH AND SHOULD BE OUT OF THE STATE WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.
Local storm report, Jun 29, 4:22 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA
420 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 1990
STORM REPORT FOR FRIDAY JUNE 29, 1990...
TIME/EDT EVENT
...............................................................................
1522 EDT DIME SIZE HAIL AT CONNEAUTVILLE BOROUGH IN CRAWFORD CO PA.
BY SKYWARN.
1550 EDT PEA SIZE HAIL AT WOODCODK AND BLOOMING VALLEY IN CRAWFORD CO. PA.
1553 EDT 3/4 IN HAIL WITH WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AT; SAGERTOWN IN
CRAWFORD CO. PA. BY SKYWARN
1600 EDT LARGE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN AT SAGERTOWN AND WOODCOCK
IN CRAWFORD CO. BY SKYWARN.
REEDYNearby
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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.