Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1986, 3:45 PM EDT for Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 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
- Aug 1, 1986, 3:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 1986, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Trumbull 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 4:15 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Trumbull, 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 115 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1258 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 011945 SVRYNG OHC155-012045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 345 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHEAST OHIO...TRUMBULL AT 340 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BRISTOLVILLE OH IN NORTHWEST TRUMBULL C'OUNTY. SPOTTERS REPORTED SMALL HAIL OCCURED AT BRISTOLVILLE AS THE STORM MOVED IN. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAIN.. DAMAGING WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. TRP
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, Aug 1, 3:12 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH
315 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 1986
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER NORTHEAST OHIO AND HAVE MOVED
IN TO NORTHERN TRUMBULL COUNTY.
AT 310 PM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ACROSS
NORTHERNMOST TRUMBULL COUNTY FROM NEAR KINSMAN OHIO WEST TO OVER THE
MESOPOTAMIA OHIO AREA.
THESE STORMS LIKELY CONTAINED HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS AND MAY ALSO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL.
THES STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST AND SHOULD AFFECT NORTH TRUMBULL
COUNTY AND NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY OF PENNSYLVANIA INTO THE EARLY
EVENING HOURS. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO
SHELTER AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OVER THE AREA.
TRP
[Special weather statement, Aug 1, 3:31 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
^CLESPSCAK SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 324 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 1986 AT 315 PM RADAR INDICATED A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM IN TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO JUST SOUTH OF NEW PHILAPELPHIA, OHIO. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT CLOUDY TO GROUND LIGHTNING, GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. PEOPLE IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER AS THIS THUNDERSTORMS MOVES THRU. EJH
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.