Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 1986, 8:27 PM EST for Guernsey County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 1986, 8:27 PM EST (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 1986, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Guernsey 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1399 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 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 KCAK 070127 SVRCAK OHC059-070200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 827 PM EST SUN APR 6 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF OHIO...GUERNSEY AT 825 PM AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM NEAR CAMBRIDGE OHIO MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS..FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF DRAINAGE SYSTEMS. REMEMBER THESE STORMS CAN.. AND OCCASIONALLY DO.. PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
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, Apr 6, 3:11 PM EST, 5 hours 16 minutes before
^CLESPSCAK SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 259 PM EST SUN APR 6 1986 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN SUMMIT AND PORTAGE COUNTIES... AT 255PM EST WEATHER RADAR AT THE AKRON-CANTON AIRPORT SHOWED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME NORTHERN SUMMIT AND PORTAGE COUNTIES OF OHIO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PERSONS IN NORTHERN SUMMIT AND PORTAGE COUNTIES MAY EXPERIENCE THUNDERSTORMS..HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL..FOR THE NEXT HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY LIGHTNING. MARTIN
Special weather statement, Apr 6, 3:29 PM EST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
^CLESPSYNG SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 330 PM EST SUN APR 06 1986 VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST OHIO. RADAR AT 322 PM INDICATED A CLUSTER OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN ESTREME NORTHEAST PORTAGE AND SOUTHEAST GEAUGA COUNTY MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS ..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS TRUMBULL COUNTY BY 345PM AND OVER MERCER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA BY 415 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES, SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND NOTIFY YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORECEMENT AGENCY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. UDELL
Special weather statement, Apr 6, 3:37 PM EST, 4 hours 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 330 PM EST SUN APR 06 1986 ...LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS OVER NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 325 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS..10 MILES WIDE EXTENDING SOUTHWEST FROM THE LAKE CHAUTAUQUA AREA OF WESTERN NEW YORK..THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN ERIE AND CENTRAL CRAWFORD COUNTIES.. INTO NORTHEASTERN OHIO..NORTH OF YOUNGSTOWN..THIS LINE WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT PORTIONS OF ERIE..CRAWFORD AND WARREN COUNTIES UNTIL 5 PM..WITH A COLD FRONT MOVING EASTWARD TOWARDS THE AREA..THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE RAPID AND COULD AFFECT ANY AREA IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA VERY QUICKLY FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON.. HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY SOME OF THESE STORMS..FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS MAY OCCUR. PARRISH
Special weather statement, Apr 6, 5:10 PM EST, 3 hours 17 minutes before
^CLESPSCAK SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 510 PM EST SUN APR 6 1986 HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH EAST CENTRAL OHIO AND WILL REACH THE OHIO RIVER NEAR STEUBENVILLE AROUND 600 PM. AT 505PM AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL TUSCARAWAS COUNTY WITH THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST WEST OF NEW PHILADELPHIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 M9PH AND WILL PASS THROUGH SOUTHERN CARROLL AND NORTHERN HARRISON COUNTIES THEN MOVE INTO JEFFERSON COUNTY BY 600 PM. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS..SMALL HAIL..AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH EAST CENTRAL OHIO. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Apr 6, 5:32 PM EST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 530 PM EST SUN APR 06 1986 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 530 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR BRADFORD IN MCKEAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA..SOUTHWEST.. TO NEAR CLARION. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE PASSING WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES THIS EVENING.. MCKEAN..ELK AND CAMERON. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN..SEVERE LIGHTNING..SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. PARRISH
Special weather statement, Apr 6, 8:11 PM EST, 16 minutes before
^CLESPSCAK
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
810 PM EST SUN APR 6 1986
AT 805 PM AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A VERY HEAVY
THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN GUERNSEY COUNTRY..5 MILES WEST OF
CAMBRIDGE.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL
MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTHERN HALF OF GUERNSEY COUNTY AND
INTO BELMONT AND MONROE COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL OHIO
BY 900 PM.
PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTIES CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAINS..GUSTY
WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH.
THOMPSON {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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.