Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1986, 6:07 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1986, 6:07 PM EDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1986, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 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, 10.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3404 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 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 152207 SVRCLE OHC035-152300- BULLETIN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO 607 PM EDT SUN JUN 15 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF OHIO...CUYAHOGA AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE. RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER CUYAHOGA COUNTY AT 6 PM. VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE REPORTED IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY AND ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH HAIL FELL AT STRONGSVILLE AT 550 PM THESE THUDNERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST ABOUT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAIN.. DAMAGING WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. PAM
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, Jun 15, 5:27 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 525 PM EDT SUN JNU 15 1986 HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO WITH SOME HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINS REPORTED. MARBLE AND PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN PARMA AND IN PEPPER PIKE SHORTLY AFTER 5PM EDT. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCAL URBAN FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW PLACES ARE LIKELY. SMALL STREAM FLOODING MAY OCCUR AS THESE HEAVY THUDERSTORMS MOVE EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN OHIO AREA DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBLE FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND NOT ENTER FLOODED AREAS. HIGH WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AND PEOPLE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IF WEATHER CONDITONS BECOME THREATENING. MONTGOMERY
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 5:42 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 532 PM EDT SUN JUN 15 1986 ERIE WEATHER RADAR AT 530 PM SHOWS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHEASTERN OHIO ALONG THE LAKE ERIE SHORELINE. THERE HAS BEEN REPORTS OF SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS IN OHIO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA..IN ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES SHORTLY AFTER 6PM. WITH THE HEAVY RAINFALLS SOME URBAN AND. LOW LAND FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG THE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PEOPLE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IF WEATHER CONDITIONS BECOME THREATENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky | 88 min |
| Jun 15, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 43 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.