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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 31, 1991Ottawa County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1991, 10:12 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1991, 10:12 PM EDT (02:12 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1991, 10:45 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ottawa County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 207 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1991-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1821 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1991-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 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
1821 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1293 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 9:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas51 min
May 31, 9:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood55 min
May 31, 10:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie68 min
May 31, 10:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain67 min
May 31, 11:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga64 min
Jun 1, 12:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.