Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1986, 1:20 PM EDT for Henry 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 26, 1986, 1:20 PM EDT (17:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1986, 2:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 1:27 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | 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, 5.3 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1308 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 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 KTOL 261720 SVRTOL OHC069-261820- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 120 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 220 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF OHIO... HENRY AT 114 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN HENRY COUNTY MOVING , EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAINS.. DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. KSL
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 26, 12:55 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 100 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 5 PM EDT. A 1245 PM SHOWERS AND SOME HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVED INTO NORTHWEST OHIO WEST OF TOLEDO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 35 MPH. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED WITH THESE STORMS. MORAVEK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 33 min |
| Aug 26, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 56 min |
| Aug 26, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Williams | 50 min |
| Aug 26, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Fulton | 72 min |
| Aug 26, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Defiance, Henry | 62 min |
Nearby
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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.