Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Cleveland, OH
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 2:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Carroll, Stark | 50 min |
| May 17, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Fulton | 40 min |
| May 17, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 55 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.