Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Cleveland, OH

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA
254 PM EDT FRI SEP 26 1986

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8 PM...
...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT...

AT 250 PM ERIE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE
OCCURRING FROM THE JAMESTOWN AREA OF WESTERN NEW YORK...SOUTHWESTWARD...
THROUGH WARREN AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA.  THESE
STORMS ARE PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...
CAUSING FLOODING PROBLEMS IN THESE COUNTIES...AS THESE STORMS MOVE SOUTH-
EASTWARD...THEY WILL AFFECT WARREN..EASTERN CRAWFORD..FOREST..MCKEAN AND
VENANGO COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA.

THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR..MOTORISTS SHOULD
USE CAUTION IF TRAVELING THROUGH THESE HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

PARRISH

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
318 PM EDT FRI SEP 26 1986

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR TWO AREAS OF OHIO
UNTIL THIS EVENING.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM EDT FOR EXTREME
EASTERN OHIO, THAT IS, THE AREA EAST OF A LINE FROM LAKE COUNTY TO
MONROE COUNTY. THE SECOND WATCH IS FOR NORTHWEST OHIO NORTHWEST OF
A LINE FROM PORT CLINTON TO LIMA. THAT WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL
9PM EDT.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS OHIO AT 3PM, BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER
HAS BEEN REPORTED.

THE AIR IS UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD INCREASE IN AREA AND
INTENSITY.

LISTEN FOR STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND PREPARE TO
 TAKE SHELTER IF CONDITIONS BECOME THREATENING.

REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

MATANICK

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND AFTERNOON OHIO WEATHER STORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
501 PM EDT FRI SEP 26 1986

THERE IS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST OHIO
UNTIL 9PM. HOWEVER, THE WATCH THAT HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME
EASTERN OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

IT WAS A WARM, HUMID SUMMERY DAY IN OHIO WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. SO FAR NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED, BUT
CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
THROUGH THE EVENING IN NORTHWEST OHIO. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD
BEEN REPORTED IN INDIANA, AND THOSE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST.

IN NORTHWEST OHIO THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES..
WILLIIAMS, DEFIANCE, PAULDING, FULTON, HENRY, PUTNAM, LUCAS, WOOD,
HANCOCK, VAN WERT, ALLEN, OTTAWA, SANDUSKY AND SENECA.

PEOPLE IN THE NORTHWEST OHIO COUNTIES SHOULD STAY ON THE ALERT FOR
SEVERE WEATHER. LISTEN FOR STATEMENTS, OR POSSIBLE WARNING, FROM THE
 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS TAKE SHELTER.
PLEASE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

ALL OHIO STATIONS REPORTED TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S THIS AFTERNOON. AT
YOUNGSTOWN THE TEMPERATURE ROSE TO A NEW HIGH FOR THE DAY OF 85 DEGREES
AT 115 PM. THE OLD RECORD WAS 84 IN 1959.

REPORTED RAIN AMOUNTS WERE LIGHT AND SPOTTY FOR THE SIX HOURS ENDING AT
2PM. AT TOLEDO THERE WAS A TENTH OF AN INCH OF RAIN DURING THAT TIME.
MUCH OF THE RAIN FELL AT NON REPORTING POINTS.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE INCLUDED IN NATIONAL WEATHERS SERVICE
FORECASTS THROUGH SATURDAY. SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY NIGHT AND
SUNDAY. CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN WARM AND HUMID. HIGHS WILL BE IN THE 80S
SATURDAY AND IN THE 70S AND 80S SUNDAY.

ON THE WEATHER MAP A WARM FRONT EXTENDED FROM WISCONSIN TO MICHIGAN
AND NEW YORK.  IT WILL DROP DOWN INTO NORTHEAST OHIO BY SATURDAY
EVENING. HIGH PRESURE WILL REMAIN OVER THE SOUTHEAST STATES THROUGH
SUND1AY.

RJM

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
552 PM EDT FRI SEP 26 1986

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM EDT FOR
NORTHWEST OHIO.

UP UNTIL 530 PM NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED. THERE WERE
VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THOUGH FROM SOUTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN
TO EXTRME NORTHWEST OHIO. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST.

PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST OHIO SHOULD LISTEN FOR NATIONAL WEATHER STATEMENTS,
AND ANY WARNINGS THAT MAY BE NEEDED, AND TAKE SHELTER IF CONDITIONS
BECOME THREATENING.

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

MATANICK

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
652 PM EDT FRI SEP 26 1986

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR OHIO
NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM PORT CLINTON TO LIMA,  AND UNTIL 11 PM EDT
FOR THE REST OF OHIO NORTH OF A LINE FROM CINCINNATI TO WHEELING,
WEST VIRGINIA.

A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WAS OVER WESTERN OHIO AND
EXTENDED INTO INDIANA AND NORTH INTO EASTERN LOWER MICHIGAN. THAT AREA
OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST.

TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN AND A TRASH DUMPSTER OVERTURNED BY HIGH WINDS
AT 620 PM IN DEFIANCE COUNTY. HAIL OF THREE-QUARTER INCH DIAMETER WAS
ALSO REPORTED.

PEOPLE IN OHIO ARE URGED TO LISTEN TO STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS FROM THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. TAKE COVER IF WEATHER BECOMES THREATENING.
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PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY.

MATANICK