Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1990, 2:26 PM EDT for Wyandot County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1990, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1990, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wyandot 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
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1619 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTOL 191840 COR
SVRTOL
OHC175-191900-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING... CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
240 PM EDT SUN AUG 19 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
...WYANDOT
AT 225 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
OVER SOUTHEAST WYANDOT COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35
MPH.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM&
HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
MURPHY
... CORRECTED TIME OF RADAR REPORT...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, Aug 19, 1:48 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-191900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 148 PM EDT SUN AUG 19 1990 THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 145 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL OVER SOUTHEAST WOOD AND EAST-CENTRAL HANCOCK COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STORMS WILL ENTER SENECA AND WYANDOT COUNTIES AROUND 200 PM. IF YOU SEE SEVERE WEATHER... PLEASE CALL YOUR COUNTY SHERRIFF'S OFFICE AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. MURPHY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Washington | 60 min |
| Aug 19, 3:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina | 116 min |
| Aug 19, 3:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 6:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 56 min |
| Aug 19, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Wayne | 67 min |
| Aug 19, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Tuscarawas | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Coshocton | 58 min |
| Aug 19, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Guernsey | 62 min |
| Aug 19, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Washington | 67 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.