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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 22, 1990Columbiana County, Mahoning County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 1990, 8:53 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Mahoning County, Ohio. It was in force for 67 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: Jul 22, 1990, 8:53 PM EDT (00:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 1990, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Columbiana County, OH, Mahoning 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
Jul 22, 9:00 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Columbiana, 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 828 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KYNG 230053
TORYNG
OHC099-029-230200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH
853 PM EDT SUN JUL 22 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF OHIO
      MAHONING...COLUMBIANA

AT 850 PM EDT NUMEROUS FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE REPORTED BY THE
PUBLIC MOVING GENERALLY EAST AT 30 MPH.

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.  U.SE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

 APFEL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 8:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Mahoning	41 min
Jul 22, 10:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Mahoning	116 min
Jul 22, 11:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Carroll, Harrison, Stark, Tuscarawas	3 hr
Jul 22, 11:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Guernsey	3 hr
Jul 23, 12:15 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Jefferson	3 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.