Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1986, 9:05 PM EDT for Erie County, Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 70 min. 2 reports 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
- May 6, 1986, 9:05 PM EDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1986, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Erie County, OH, Huron 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Huron, OH | |
| May 6, 9:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Erie, 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
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1882 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1282 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 070105 SVRCLE OHC043-077-070215- BULLETIN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO 905 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF OHIO...ERIE..HURON AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE. AT 9 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR FREMONT SOUTHWEST. THERE WERE ALSO THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL IN THE MILAN AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR TIFFIN AND FREMONT. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL MOVE INTO ERIE AND HURON COUNTIES BETWEEN 915 AND 930 PM EDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAIN.. DAMAGING WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. MAXIMUK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 57 min |
| May 6, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 81 min |
| May 6, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 60 min |
| May 6, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 86 min |
| May 6, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit | 62 min |
| May 6, 8:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Seneca | 71 min |
| May 6, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 58 min |
| May 6, 8:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 64 min |
| May 6, 10:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 52 min |
| May 7, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Noble | 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.