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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH

March 2, 1991Columbiana County, Mahoning County, Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 1991, 2:49 PM EST for Columbiana County, Mahoning County, Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 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
Mar 2, 1991, 2:49 PM EST (19:49 UTC)
Expired
Mar 2, 1991, 3:45 PM EST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Columbiana County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Trumbull County, OH

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 2, 3:20 PM ESTHail 0.75Mahoning, 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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 1991-03-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 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 1991-03-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
670 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
197 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 021953
SVRYNG
OHC029-022045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH
249 PM EST SAT MAR 2 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN YOUNGSTOWN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
          TRUMBALL...MAHONING...COLUMBIANA
 
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING ONE INCH HAIL WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH
AND WERE MOVING INTO WESTERN TRUMBULL...MAHONING...AND COLUMBIANA
COUNTIES.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 2, 10:38 AM EST, 4 hours 11 minutes before
OHZALL-030830-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR OHIO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1040 AM EST SAT MAR 2 1991

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY SAYS THAT
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK$ OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT OVER ALL OF OHIO.

VRCEK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 2, 2:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark36 min
Mar 2, 2:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage53 min
Mar 2, 2:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991

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.