Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1990, 11:46 AM EDT for Belmont County, Ohio. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 1990, 11:46 AM EDT (15:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1990, 12:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 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, 3.8 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
- 105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1061 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCAK 011547
SVRCAK
OHC013-011645-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
1146 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
...BELMONT
AT 1145 AM EDT A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR
BETWEEN BETHESDA AND CENTERVILLE IN CENTRAL BELMONT COUNTY. THE STORM
WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 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 EFLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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
Local storm report, Jul 1, 8:17 AM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA
808 AM EDT SUN JUL 01 1990
STORM REPORT FROM WSO ERIE FOR...SATURDAY JUNE 30TH 1990
TIME/EDT EVENT
................................................... AIRPORT...ERIE SA
1910 1/2 INCH HAIL 5 MI NORTH OF WATERFORD..WIND SPEED 50 MPH...
ERIE COUNTY...BY SKYWARN
2110 3/4 INCH HAIL...TREES/POWER LINES DOWN 10 MILES EAST OF MEADVILLE
...CRAWFORD COUNTY...PUBLIC
[
2140 WIND DAMAGE...TREES/POWER LINES DOWN NORTH OF OIL CITY...
VENANGO COUNTY...POLICE
PARRISHSpecial weather statement, Jul 1, 11:26 AM EDT, 20 minutes before
OHZ004-007-011630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 1120 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 1990 AT 1115 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATES TWO THUNDERSTORMS IN BELMONT COUNTY. ONE WAS NEAR HEND RYSBURG AND THE OTHER NEAR GLENCOE. THESE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORNMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND MAY CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN HIGH WIND AND POSSIBLE HAIL. FK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 11:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Coshocton | 67 min |
| Jun 30, 11:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Noble | 58 min |
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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.