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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 19, 1986Lucas County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1986, 12:26 PM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 1986, 12:26 PM EDT (16:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1986, 1:30 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Lucas 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

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1986-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1986-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 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 191626
SVRTOL
OHC095-191730-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
1226 PM EDT THU JUN 19 1986
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
 
OHIO... LUCAS
 
AT 1223 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN LUCAS COUNTY MOVING SOUTH
AT 30 MPH.
 
THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAINS..
DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
 
KSL

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 19, 11:21 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
^CLESPSTOL

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
1120AM EDT THU JUN 19 1986

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING TO MOVE TOWARDS NORTHWEST
OHIO LATE THIS MORNING.

AT 1115 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST NORTH OF DETROIT MICHIGAN
SOUTHWESTWARD TO JUST NORTH OF SOUTH BEND INDIANA. MOVEMENT OF
THIS LINE WAS SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHWEST
OHIO BETWEEN 12 AND 1230 PM THIS AFTERNOON. PAST SURFACE REPORTS
INDICATE THAT VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WINDS AROUND 30 MPH HAVE BEEN
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS ACTIVITY.

PEOPLE THROUGHOUT NORTHWEST OHIO SHOULD BE} PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY
 CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AS WELL AS
HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS AT TIMES DUE TO THE POSSIBLE HEAVY
RAINS.

KSL

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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.