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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 23, 1991Washington County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1991, 4:55 PM EDT for Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 23, 1991, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 1991, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Washington County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1991-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1991-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 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 232057
SVRCAK
OHC167-232200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
455 PM EDT FRI AUG 23 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 450 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
BEVERLY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
 
THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING
WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
 
THOMPSON

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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.