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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 1990, 3:09 PM EDT for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1990, 3:09 PM EDT (19:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1990, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Geauga 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 691 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCLE 061909
TORCLE
OHC055-061945-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
309 PM EDT THU SEP 6 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
...GEAUGA
AT 308 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR CHARDON... THE TORNADO WAS SMALL
AND MOVING SOUTHEAST. TAKE SHELTER.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PAuTH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. PROTECT YOUR HEAD... CHEST AND EXPOSED SKIN.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND
PUT AS MANY WALLS AS POSSIBLE BETWEEN YOURSELF AND THE STORM.
AVOID WINDOWS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Lorain | 42 min |
| Sep 6, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 30 min |
| Sep 6, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 54 min |
| Sep 6, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 40 min |
| Sep 6, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 67 min |
| Sep 6, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit | 60 min |
| Sep 6, 4:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 55 min |
| Sep 6, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 65 min |
| Sep 6, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 60 min |
| Sep 6, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Carroll, Holmes, Tuscarawas | 63 min |
| Sep 6, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Belmont | 42 min |
| Sep 6, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 57 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.