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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 22, 1990Washington County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 1990, 6:24 PM EDT for Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 1990, 6:24 PM EDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 1990, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Washington 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

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 149 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 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 KCAK 222224
TORCAK
OHC167-222315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
624 PM EDT SUN JUL 22 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
          ...WASHINGTON
 
AT 615 PM THE SHERIFF OF WASHINGTON COUNTY REPORTED A TORNADO 1 MILE
NORTH OF MARIETTA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS
PUBLIC REPORTS OF THIS TORNADO TOUCHING DOWN.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AQS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 9:46 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Hancock, Putnam, Seneca, Wood, Wyandot	3 hr
Jul 22, 9:46 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Lucas	3 hr
Jul 22, 9:46 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Sandusky	3 hr
Jul 22, 7:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Portage, Stark, Summit	2 hr
Jul 22, 7:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Columbiana	33 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.