Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 7, 1986Noble County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1986, 4:58 PM EDT for Noble County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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: May 7, 1986, 4:58 PM EDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1986, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Noble 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 7, 5:30 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Noble, 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 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 37 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAK 072058
SVRCAK
OHC121-072200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
458 PM EDT WED MAY 7 1986
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
 
OHIO.. NOBLE
 
AT 455 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM OVER
SENECAVILLE LAKE IN NORTHERN NOBLE COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 25 MPH.
 
THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAINS..
DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
 
ALTO

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

Local storm report, May 7, 2:31 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA
226 PM EDT WED MAY 07 1986

DATE         TIME           EVENT

5/6/86       640 PM EDT     NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN THE VICINITY OF
                            TIONESTA...VIA SKYWARN HAM

5/6/86       625 PM EDT     1 INCH HAIL BETWEEN MEADVILLE AND CAMBRIDGE
                            SPRINGS...VIA CRAWFORD COUNTY FIRE CONTROL
                                                                               55/6/86       625 PM EDT     1 1/4 INCH HAIL CHERRY HILL ERIE COUNTY
             630 PM EDT     1 1/2 INCH HAIL CHERRY HILL..VIA SKYWARN HAM

5/6/86       745 PM EDT     TWO HOMES WITH CONSIDERBALE DAMAGE BY FIRE DUE
                           D TO DOWNED POWER LINES FROM HIGH WINDS..VIA
                            SKYWARN HAM

ATTN ALSO TO: DMIC WSFO PIT

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, 9:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	70 min
May 6, 10:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1986 Every 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.