Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1986, 5:09 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1986, 5:09 PM EDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1986, 6:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 486 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 960 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAK 162109 SVRCAK OHC169-162210- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 509 PM EDT MON JUN 16 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 610 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF OHIO.. WAYNE AT 5 PM RADAR INDICATED A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOOSTER OHIO. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PR ODUCE LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAINS.. DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. EH
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, Jun 16, 12:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA
1238 PM EDT MON JUN 16 1986
DATE TIME EVENT
6/15 APPROX 6:30 PM EDT NUMEROUS REPORTS OF LARGE TREES
KNOCKED OVER BY WINDS. REPORTED
BY WEST COUNTY FIRE CONTROL. THIS
WAS IN CRAWFORD COUNTY.
6/15 6:45 PM EDT VICINITY OF CHERRY HILL AND JUMBO
WOODS IN SOUTHWEST ERIE COUNTY.
TREES AND LARGE LIMBS KNOCKED DOWN
AND BROKEN OFF. REPORTED BY CHERRY
3 HILL SKYWARN OBSERVERS.Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 345 PM EDT MON JUN 16 1986 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 830 PM. AT 330 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM TOLEDO TO FORT WAYNE INDIANA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SINCE THEY WERE THREATENING TO INVADE THE WESTERN END OF LAKE ERIE A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING WAS IN EFFECT FROM MAUMEE BAY TO VERMILON UNTIL 515 PM. NO REPORTS OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY THESE STORMS HAD BEEN RECEIVED AT 330 PM, BUT THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO RAPIDLY REACH SEVERE LEVELS. OHIOANS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS FROM THE WEATHER SERVICE. IN ADDITION.. A FLOOD WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR ASHTABULA.. GEUAGA.. AND LAKE COUNTIES. < THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT ENTERED THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD REACH THE EAST LAKESHORE COUNTIES DURING THE EVENING. SINCE THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS AND THE GROUND IN NORTHEAST OHIO IS ALREADY SOAKED THERE IS A THREAT OF RAPID FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND LOW AREAS. THE THREAT OF FLOODING IN NORTHEAST OHIO WILL END TONIGHT AS PRECIPITATION MOVES( OUT OF THE AREA. UNTIL THEN PEOPLE IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD LISTEN FOR STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS FROM THE WEATHER SERVICE AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION IF WATER RISES. KWIATKOWSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 6:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Medina | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 6:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 66 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.