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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 2, 1990Guernsey County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1990, 6:02 PM EDT for Guernsey 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
Sep 2, 1990, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired
Sep 2, 1990, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Guernsey 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 2, 6:47 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 0Guernsey, 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 125 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1990-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 692 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1990-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
692 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
944 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Sep 2, 3:17 PM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
OHZ004-007-022030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
315 PM EDT SUN SEP  2 1990

THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED RAPIDILY OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL OHIO THIS
AFTERNOON.

AT 315 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE FROM
MILLERSBURG EAST THROUGH NEW PHILADELPHIA TO EAST LIVERPOOL. THESE
STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS
GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY PASS
THROUGH. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS LOCATED ALONG THE COLUMBIANA-
JEFFERSON COUNTY LINE AND ALSO NEAR NEW PHILADELPHIA.

IF YOU ARE OUT ON A BOAT OR JUST HAVING A PICNIC THIS AFTERNOON... KEEP
AN EYE TO THE SKY.

ALTO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 2, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEBelmont65 min
Sep 2, 6:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEGuernsey118 min
Sep 2, 7:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLENoble3 hr

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.