Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 27, 1986, 4:04 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 27, 1986, 4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 1986, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cuyahoga 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 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 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 KCLE 272004 SVRCLE OHC035-272100- BULLETIN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO 404 PM EDT SAT SEP 27 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF OHIO...CUYAHOGA AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE. A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST ALONG THE LAKESHORE AT 4 PM. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INLAND OVER EASTERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY BY 4 20 PM. TREES HAVE BEEN KNOCKED DOWN IN AVON LAKE AT 345 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAIN.. DAMAGING WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. FMK
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 27, 2:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
^CLESPSTOL
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
205 PM EDT SAT SEP 27 1986
AT 200 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST OHIO.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF BOWLING
GREEN TO FINDLAY TO ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF TIFFIN.
VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS.. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS.
(THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
RAR
[Special weather statement, Sep 27, 3:09 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
^CLESPSTOL SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 305 PM EDT SAT SEP 27 1986 AT 300 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST OHIO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST OF A LINE FROM WALBRIDGE TO TIFFIN. ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL.. VERY HEAVY RAIN.. AND WINDS GUSTING TO 35 MPH OCCURED AT REPUBLIC OHIO AROUND 230 THIS AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. RzAR
Special weather statement, Sep 27, 3:38 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 337 PM EDT SAT SEP 26 1986 A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY RADAR ON LAKE ERIE JUST NORTH OF LORAIN AT 325 PM EDT. IT WAS MOVING ALONG THE LAKESHORE AND WILL REACH LAND IN THE DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND AREA BEFORE 4PM. THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE EASTERN PART OF CUYHOGA COUNTY AND WESTERN LAKE COUNTY FROM 4PM TO 430 PM. THE WINDS IN THE STORM WERE REPORTED AT BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH JUST NORTH OF LORAIN BY THE CHARTER BOAT MISS MAJESTIC AT 327 PM. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS, HAIL, AND INTENSE LIGHTNING. MATANICK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 55 min |
| Sep 26, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Guernsey | 60 min |
| Sep 26, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 54 min |
| Sep 26, 9:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 60 min |
| Sep 26, 10:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 78 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.