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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 30, 1990Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1990, 4:36 PM EDT for Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 69 min. 1 report 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: Jun 30, 1990, 4:36 PM EDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1990, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Medina 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
Jun 30, 5:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Medina, 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, 8.6 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 302041
SVRCLE
OHC103-302145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
436 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
          ...MEDINA
 
AT 430 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER LORAIN COUNTY
JUST SOUTH OF GRAFTON. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH
AND WILL ENTER MEDINA COUNTY BY 5PM. CURRENT MOVEMENT WILL TAKE THE
STORMS NEAR THE CITIES OF LODI AND MEDINA. THIS STORM PRODUCED DIME
SIZED HAIL IN OBERLIN AT 420 PM.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
GABRIC

What 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 30, 3:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

OHZALL-302045-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR OHIO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
330 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 1990

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN THIRD OF
OHIO UNTIL 10 PM.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM
PITTSBURGH TO FORT WAYNE. SOME OF THE CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA ARE
TOLEDO... FINDLAY... MANSFIELD... CLEVELAND... YOUNGSTOWN AND AKRON
CANTON.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BEGAN TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN...
WESTERN LAKE ERIE AND NORTHEAST OHIO DURING THE MID AFTERNOON. AT 320 PM
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS OVER LAKE ERIE ABOUT 30
MILES NORTH OF CLEVELAND. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER PORTAGE
AND COLUMBIANA COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

REMEMBER... A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WELATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

SJN

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 4:30 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

OHZ004-PAZ003-302300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH
429 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM...

...THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING ACROSS NORTHWEST MAHONING COUNTY...

AT 420 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF
THUNDERSTORMS TRACKING ACROSS NORTHWEST MAHONING COUNTY. THE STRONGEST
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR AUSTINTOWN. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY
RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL..AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT
OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY. IF SEVERE
WEATHER APPROACHS...TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

DP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	61 min
Jun 30, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark, Summit	63 min
Jun 30, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	53 min
Jun 30, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Tuscarawas	68 min
Jun 30, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	80 min
Jun 30, 7:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Washington	57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1990 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.