Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 1991, 4:33 PM EDT for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1991, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1991, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Geauga County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 658 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 192051 COR TORCLE OHC055-192115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 450 PM EDT MON AUG 19 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...GEAUGA COUNTY AT 420 PM THE GEAUGA COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR NEWBURY. THE STORM CONTAINING THIS FUNNEL CLOUD WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. PROTECT YOUR HEAD... CHEST AND EXPOSED SKIN. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND PUT AS MANY WALLS AS POSSIBLE BETWEEN YOURSELF AND THE STORM. AVOID WINDOWS. JK CORRECTED TIME OF FUNNEL CLOUD REPORT
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Aug 19, 2:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
OHZALL-192030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO 235 PM EDT MON AUG 19 1991 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO. THE WATCH COVERS MOST OF THE STATE SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CINCINNATI... TO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBUS... TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF YOUNGSTOWN. MAJOR CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE COLUMBUS... IRONTON... AND ZANESVILLE. AT 230 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE PARTS OF OHIO SOUTH AND EAST OF COLUMBUS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. IF THEY MAINTAIN THIS COURSE... THEY WILL BE OUT OF THE STATE BY 5 PM. OTHER STORMS COULD AFFECT VARIOUS PARTS OF OHIO THIS EVENING... BUT ARE UNLIKELY TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER. NO CONFIRMED REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER WERE RECEIVED BY THE WEATHER SERVICE IN OHIO BETWEEN NOON AND 235 PM. HOWEVER... DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL... AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS REMAIN A POSSIBILITY IN THE WATCH AREA AND PEOPLE THERE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING CONDITIONS. KWIATKOWSKI
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
OHZ004-007-192000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 240 PM EDT MON AUG 19 1991 THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING TO RUMBLE THROUGH EASTERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON WITH HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS. AT 235 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS IN A LINE FROM NEAR YOUNGSTOWN SOUTH TO MARIETTA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE OUT OF OHIO BY 4 PM. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING IN BELMONT...MNOBLE...AND MONROE COUNTIES. GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL COULD ALSO ACCOMPANY SOME OF THESE STORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST AND ALL OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
OHZALL-182000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 247 PM EDT MON AUG 19 1991 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 737 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF OHIO. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTHEAST INLAND... CARROLL COLUMBIANA JEFFERSON STARK WAYNE ...CENTRAL... DELAWARE FAIRFIELD FAYETTE FRANKLIN HOCKING KNOX LICKING MADISON PERRY PICKAWAY ROSS UNION THE WATCH REAMINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN OHIO UNTIL 600 PM EDT. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
OHZALL-192000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 251 PM EDT MON AUG 19 1991 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 737 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF OHIO. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTHEAST INLAND... CARROLL COLUMBIANA JEFFERSON STARK WAYNE ...CENTRAL... DELAWARE FAIRFIELD FAYETTE FRANKLIN HOCKING KNOX LICKING MADISON PERRY PICKAWAY ROSS UNION THE WATCH REAMINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN OHIO UNTIL 600 PM EDT. JOHNSON/CORRECTED CODE.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 3:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
OHZ004-007-192000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 306 PM EDT MON AUG 19 1991 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHEAST OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED BUT REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO UNTIL 6PM EDT. AT 3 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME EASTERN OHIO FROM EAST LIVERPOOL TO MARIETTA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE ACROSS THE OHIO RIVER BY 4PM. HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS OVER JEFFERSON...BELMONT...MONROE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES UNTIL 4PM. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 3:54 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 345 PM EDT MON AUG 19 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING IN PARTS OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 340 PM RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA REACHING NORTHWARD INTO CRAWFORD COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WERE NEAR MEADVILLE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED WESTWARD ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS HAS BEEN ERATIC...BUT GENE'RALLY TOWARDS THE NORTH NORTHWEST. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. PARRISH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 11:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 62 min |
| Aug 19, 4:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 60 min |
| Aug 19, 5:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 7:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 2 hr |
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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.