Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 26, 1986Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 1986, 10:12 PM EDT for Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 78 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
Sep 26, 1986, 10:12 PM EDT (02:12 UTC)
Expired
Sep 26, 1986, 11:30 PM EDT
In force
78 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 26, 10:20 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 0Trumbull, 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 00:00Z, 2.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1986-09-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1126 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1986-09-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1126 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1008 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KYNG 270213 COR
SVRYNG
OHC155-270330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING..CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH
1012 PM EDT FRI SEP 26 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...TRUMBULL

AT 10 PM EDT THE TRUMBULL COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURING IN EXTREME NORTHWEST TRUMBULL COUNTY
AROUND MESOPOTAMIA AND WEST FARMINGTON. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAUSING WIDESPREAD POWER FAILURES.

WHEN A THUNDERSTORM THREATENS ALL LIGHTNING EXPERTS AGREE THAT THE
MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE THING YOU CAN DO IS TO GET INSIDE A HOME OR
LARGE BUILDING.  IF YOU DO NOT HAVE TIME TO REACH A SAFE BUILDING..
AVOID OPEN FIELDS SUCH AS GOLF COURSES.. BASEBALL FIELDS.. BEACHES
OR FISHING FROM A SMALL BOAT OR PIERS.

 UDELL
..CORRECTED 2FOR ADD WARNING FOR ALL OF TRUMBULL COUNTY...

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, Sep 26, 5:03 PM EDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
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, Sep 26, 5:52 PM EDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
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, Sep 26, 6:53 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Sep 26, 9:56 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND EVENING OHIO WEATHER STORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
956 PM EDT FRI SEP 27 1986

THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE MOVING ACROSS MUCH OF OHIO LATE THIS
EVENING.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF OHIO UNTIL
11 PM. AT 945 PM RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER GEAUGA
AND TRUMBULL COUNTIES. RADAR ALSO INDICATED THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE
OF STORMS FROM FAIRPORT HARBOR TO THE AKRON-CANTON AREA TO NEAR
ZANESVILLE AND THEN TO ATHENS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

SINCE 9 PM NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE AND AT 945 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WAS IN EFFECT FOR
STARK COUNTY.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS, BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS
LINE OF STORMS WHEN IT MOVES THROUGH EASTERN OHIO TONIGHT.

DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TREES AND
POWERLINES WERE REPORTED DOWN ACROSS NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO.
LARGE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN DEFIANCE COUNTY AND MUSKINGUM COUNTY THIS
EVENING. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH WERE ALSO REPORTED AT MANY
LOCATIONS.

AT 935 PM HALF INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN MIDDLEFIELD.. GEAUGA COUNTY
AND HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO FALLING AT THE RATE OF 2 INCHES AN HOUR. SOME
STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN MIDDLEFIELD.

THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DECREASE FROM THE WEST DURING THE
NIGHT. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ON TAP FOR THE STATE SATURDAY
AND SCATTERED ACTIVITY IS IN STORE FOR SUNDAY.

OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL BE AROUND 70. HIGHS TODAY WERE IN THE MID OR UPPER
80S. READINGS SATURDAY SHOULD RANGE FROM THE UPPER 70S TO MID 80S AND
AROUND 80 SUNDAY.

ON THE EVENING WEATHER MAP A WARM FRONT EXTENDED FROM MINNESOTA ACROSS
LOWER MICHIGAN TO PENNSYLVANIA. A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM MINNESOTA TO
TEXAS.

KIELTYKA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 26, 8:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain55 min
Sep 26, 8:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGuernsey60 min
Sep 26, 8:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga54 min
Sep 26, 9:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark60 min
Sep 27, 4:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.