Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1986, 6:44 PM EDT for Henry 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
- Jul 25, 1986, 6:44 PM EDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1986, 7:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henry County, OH
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Henry, 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
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1211 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jul 25, 2:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 235 PM EDT FRI JUL 25 1986 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 230 PM EDT ERIE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHERN ONTARIO..AROUND KITCHENER..SOUTHWESTWARD ..THROUGH LAKE ERIE AND INTO NORTHEASTERN OHIO..THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EASTWARD AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES AND ADJACENT LAKE ERIE WATERS BETWEEN 3 AND 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON.. AN ISOLATED HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS ALSO OVER CAMERON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS.. BOATERS ON LAKE ERIE AND PRESQUE ISLE BAY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE HARBOR IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.. PARRISH
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 5:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 500 PM EDT FRI JUL 25 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF OHIO UNTILO 1100 PM TONIGHT. AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG THE CENTRAL LAKESHORE FROM NEAR SANDUSKY TO JUST EAST OF CLEVELAND AT 5 PM EDT. HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHEAST INDIANA AND WILL MOVE INTO THE EXTREME NORTHWEST COUNTIES BY 6 PM EDT. AT 5 PM EDT NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN RECEIVED. MONTGOMERY
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 5:45 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 545 PM EDT SUN JUL 20 1986 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF OHIO AND EXTREME WESTERN LAKE ERIE THIS EVENING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH COVERS THAT PART OF OHIO WEST OF A SANDUSKY-BUCYRUS LINE AND NORTH OF A BUCYRUS TO RICHMOND, INDIANA LINE. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11:00 PM EDT. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS AT 5:45 PM SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE DETROIT AREA TO NEAR FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH. HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ENTERING THE WESTERN PARTS OF LAKE ERIE BETWEEN 6:30 AND 7:30. MAY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Defiance, Williams | 58 min |
| Jul 25, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Fulton | 56 min |
| Jul 25, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 58 min |
| Jul 25, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Paulding | 56 min |
| Jul 25, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Putnam | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.