Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1986, 1:35 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1986, 1:35 PM EDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1986, 2:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbiana County, OH
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Columbiana, OH |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 327 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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 KYNG 081735 RRA SVRYNG OHC029-081840- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 135 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 240 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF OHIO.. COLUMBIANA AT 133 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SOUTHWEST OF LISBON MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRO DUCE LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAINS.. DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MCMULLEN
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, Jul 8, 12:46 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH
1245 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 1986
AT 1240 PM, RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER
STARK COUNTY.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED SMALL HAIL, BRIEF STRONG WINDS, AND
DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE IN COLUMBIANA COUNTY
SHOULD REMAIN INDOORS AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH.
DOX^EY/MCMULLEN
[The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit | 62 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.