Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1986, 10:21 PM EDT for Mahoning County, Ohio. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 1986, 10:21 PM EDT (02:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 1986, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mahoning County, OH
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KYNG 070221 SVRYNG OHC099-070330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 1021 PM EDT WED AUG 6 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHEAST OHIO...MAHONING AT 1010PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWESTERN COLUMBIANA COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH INTO MAHONING COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAIN.. DAMAGING WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. TAYLOR
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 6, 5:16 PM EDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 503 PM EDT WED AUG 06 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN CRAWFORD AND NORTHERN VENANGO COUNTIES... AT 5 PM THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ERIE RADAR SHOWS VERY HEAVY THUNDER- STORMS PYMATUNING AND NORTH OF STONEBORO MOVING NORTHEAST INTO CRAWFORD AND VENANGO COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS GREATER THAN 35 MPH..HAIL..HEAVY RAINS AND LIGHTING. IF THREATmENING WEATHER APPROACHES.. GO TO A SAFE PLACE.
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 6:12 PM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 603 PM EDT WED AUG 06 1986 ...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IS CRAWFORD AND VENANGO COUNTIES MOVING INTO WARREN COUNTY... AT 6 PM ERIE RADAR SHOWS HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN THE OIL CITY AREA NORTHWARD TO NEAR TITUSVILLE AND CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS. THESE THUNDER- STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEAR 25 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE WARREN COUNTY AND EASTERN ERIE COUNTY WITHIN THE HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS BROUGHT NEAR 1/2 INCH OF RAIN IN 8 MIM. IN THE FRANKLIN AREA ALONG WITH STRONG WINDS. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS..LIGHTING..HAIL AND STORNG GUSTY WINDS GRATER THAN 35 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. IF THREATING WEATHER APPROACHES..GO TO A SAFE PLACE.
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 6:57 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 655 PM EDT WED AUG 6 1986 HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO THIS EVENING CAUSING LOCAL DOWNPOURS AND BRIEF GUSTING WINDS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ABOUT 25 MPH TO THE NORTHEAST. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS MAY CAUSE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS THAT RESULT IN POSSIBLE STREET FLOODING AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. SOME SMALL HAIL MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION IF ENTERING THOSE AREAS OF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND WATCH FOR POSSIBLE BRIEF FLOODING OF LOW LYING ROADWAYS. AT 655 PM EDT THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN ASHTABULA AND NORTHERIN TRUMBULL COUNTIES..AND NEAR TOLEDO TO PORT CLINTON AT THE WESTERN END OF LAKE ERIE. MONTGOMERY
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 7:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 706 PM EDT WED AUG 06 1986 HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES AT 7 PM ERIE RADAR SHOWED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST OHIO NEAR EAST ORWELL AND ANDOVER MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WESTERN ERIE AND INTO CRAWFORD COUNTIES AROUND 730 THIS EVENING. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE SEEN OVER THE LAKE NORTHWEST OF THE ERIE AREA ALSO MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..LIGHTING..GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. IF THREATING WEATHER APPROACHES..GO TO A SAFE PLACE.
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 7:19 PM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
^CLESPSTOL SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 7195PM EDT WED AUG 5 1986 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS POUNDING LUCAS COUNTY... AT 710PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL LUCAS COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO LAKE ERIE BY 745PM. THIS STORM PRODUCED PEA-SIZED HAIL AS IT MOVED INTO TOLEDO AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF OVER AN INCH IN FIFTEEN MINUTES HAVE BEEN REPORTED. THUS, RESIDENTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR VERY HEAVY RAIN, DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AS THE STORM PROGRESSES THROUGH THE COUNTY. DRIVING CONDITIONS MAY BE PARTICULARILY HAZARDOUS UNDER OVERXPASSES WHERE RAPID PONDING OF WATER IS MOST LIKELY. SPONSLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Jefferson | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.