Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 1991, 2:57 PM EST for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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, 2:57 PM EST (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1991, 3:45 PM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashtabula County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 3:30 PM EST | Hail 0.88 | Ashtabula, 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 KCLE 021959 SVRCLE OHC007-022045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 257 PM EST SAT MAR 2 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...ASHTABULA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 255 PM CLEVELAND WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF YOUNGSTOWN IN SOUTHWEST ASHTABULA COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS ASHTABULA COUNTY DURING THE NEXT 45 MINUTES. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. HEATHFIELD
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 19 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, 2:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Columbiana, Mahoning, Trumbull | 56 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.