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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 14, 1990Columbiana County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Sep 14, 1990, 7:34 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 14, 1990, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired
Sep 14, 1990, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Columbiana 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 1990-09-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 148 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 1990-09-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KYNG 142334
TORYNG
OHC029-150000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH
734 PM EDT FRI SEP 14 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF OHIO
      COLUMBIANA

AT 730 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 2 MILES SOUTH OF DAMASCUS IN
NORTHERN COLUMBIANA COUNTY BY THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT. IT WAS
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. PEOPLE IN SALEM SHOULD TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IS IN
A BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...FIND SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

 DOXEY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 14, 2:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEFulton29 min
Sep 14, 3:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELucas60 min
Sep 14, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga44 min
Sep 14, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELake53 min
Sep 14, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Summit61 min
Sep 14, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull57 min
Sep 14, 6:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGuernsey, Tuscarawas64 min
Sep 14, 6:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECarroll64 min
Sep 14, 6:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEColumbiana65 min
Sep 14, 7:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning56 min
Sep 14, 7:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula3 hr
Sep 14, 7:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWashington42 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.