Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1990, 8:32 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 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
- Aug 28, 1990, 8:32 PM EDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 1990, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashtabula 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 8:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Ashtabula, 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 2368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1231 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 10.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCLE 290032
SVRCLE
OHC007-290130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
832 PM EDT TUE AUG 28 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
...ASHTABULA
AT 830 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS JUST
OFFSHORE FROM ASHTABULA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
25 TO 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE ONSHORE BETWEEN GENEVA AND CONNEAUT AT
AROUND 845 PM.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF DRAINAGE
SYSTEMS. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
SJNWhat 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 28, 3:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
OHZALL-282100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 340 PM EDT TUE AUG 28 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING CITIES... CLEVELAND... TOLEDO...DAYTON... COLUMBUS... YOUNGSTOWN... MANSFIELD AND AKRON-CANTON. AT 310 PM RADAR WAS SHOWING A DEVELOPING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHEAST OF DETROIT TO NEAR SOUTH BEND. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL ENTER NORTHWEST OHIO BY 4 PM. PEOPLE IN OHIO SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND BE PREPARED FOR SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD HAVE WIND GUSTS IN EXC@ESS OF 58 MPH... HAIL AND EVEN HEAVY RAIN. KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 5:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-282200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 501 PM EDT TUE AUG 28 1990 THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST OHIO THIS EVENING. AT 455 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE HAIL LOCATED IN WILLIAMS COUNTY OF NORTHWEST OHIO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH... AND WILL MOVE INTO FULTON AND HENRY COUNTIES BY 530 PM. THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN NORTHWEST OHIO YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MURPHY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.