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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 17, 1986Henry County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1986, 3:07 PM EDT for Henry County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 1986, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1986, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Henry 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

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1986-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 766 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1986-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
766 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
845 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTOL 171907
SVRTOL
OHC069-171945-

BULLETIN
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
307 PM EDT SAT MAY 17 1986 

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF
   
OHIO...HENRY



A 300 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER HENRY COUNTY. THE 
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. AT 247 PM GOLF BALL
SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN RIDGEVILLE.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS GET TO A 
REINFORCED SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR STRONG.. DAMAGING WINDS.. LARGE HAIL.. 
VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING. REMEMBER THESE STORMS CAN.. AND 
OCCASIONALLY DO.. PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE- WARNING.

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, May 17, 1:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
^CLESPSTOL

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
114 PM EDT SAT MAY 17 1986

AT 110 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A VERY HEAVY
THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN DEFIANCE COUNTY.

THIS  THUNDERSTORM  WAS  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.

HEAVY RAIN.. GUSTY WINDS.. AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY
THIS STORM.

THE STORM WILL LIKELY EFFECT MOST OF THE NORTH HALF OF DEFIANCE
AND SOUTHERN WILLIAMS COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

SJS
Special weather statement, May 17, 2:26 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
^CLESPSCAK

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
225PM EDT SAT MAY 17 1986

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO,

WEATHER RADAR AT 220PM SHOWED THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORM MOVING
THROUGH STARK COUNTY.  SMALL HAIL.. HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS OF
30 MPH WERE REPORTED WITH THE STORM AS IT MOVED ACROSS APPLECREEK
IN WAYNE COUNTY AT 2 PM.  SOME DAMAGE WAS REPORTED TO A BARN AT
KIDRON IN SOUTHWEST WAYNE COUNTY AT 215 PM.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE IN THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY
BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED.

RN {

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 2:40 PM EDTTornado WarningCLECarroll, Stark50 min
May 17, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEFulton40 min
May 17, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas55 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.