Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 3:20 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Mahoning, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 2:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 36 min |
| Mar 2, 2:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 53 min |
| Mar 2, 2:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 48 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.