Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1986, 8:56 PM EDT for Putnam County, Ohio. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1986, 8:56 PM EDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1986, 9:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 664 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOL 090056 SVRTOL OHC137-090140- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 856 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 940 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF OHIO... PUTNAM AT 853 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER COLUMBUS GROVE, IN SOUTHEAST PUTNAM COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. 3 THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAINS.. DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ECKERT
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, 4:50 PM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND EVENING OHIO WEATHER STORY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 450 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EXTREME WEST AND NORTHWEST COUNTIES OF OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT. THE POTENTIAL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REACHING SEVERE CRITERIA ARE FAVORABLE OVER AN AREA FROM CHICAGO TO DETROIT AND SOUTH ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA AND EXTREME WESTERN OHIO. LATE THIS AFTERNOON SEVERAL CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER PARTS OF INDIANA AND NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS, AND COULD REACH INTO OHIO THIS EVENING. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED OVER EASTERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON, SOME OF WHICH HAD APPROACHED SEVERE LIMITS. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WERE REPORTED OVER PORTIONS OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY AND VICINITY. MUCH OF TODAY'S ACTIVITY WAS OVER EASTERN OHIO AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, EAST OF AN AKRON-MASSILLION LINE. NEARLY THREE-QUARTERS /.70/ OF AN INCH OF RAIN WAS REPORTED AT YOUNGSTOWN THROUGH 2PM. < HOT, HUMID AND HAZY CONTINUED TO DESCRIBE THE WEATHER ELEMENTS OVER MUCH OF OHIO TODAY. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES REACHED INTO THE 90 TO 95 DEGREE RANGE UNDER A BLAZING SUN OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE STATE, WHILE MID TO UPPER 80S WERE FELT IN THE NORTHERN HALF. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A WEAK FRONTAL SYSTEM NORTH OF THE STATE WAS ALLOWING FOR THE WARM HUMID AIR TO SETTLE OVER NOT ONLY OHIO, BUT OVER MUCH OF THE REGION. HOWEVER, THE FRONT WILL SLOWLY SLIDE SOUTH ACROSS OHIO LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY, BRINGING IN DRIER AND SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR BY THURSDAY. ROG
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 6:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 642 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR THE MOST OF THE WESTERN QUARTER OF OHIO AND UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN OHIO. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT OCCURRED EARLIER IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO HAD MOVED INTO WEST VIRGINIA AND PENNSYLVANIA BY 630 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER INDIANA AND LOWER MICHIGAN. r THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS OHIO AND LAKE ERIE DURING THE EVENING. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 7:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 745 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 1986 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF OHIO. THERE HAS BEEN NO SEVERE WEATHER REPORTED IN OHIO SINCE THE OCCURRENCE OF 63 MPH WINDS AT THE AKRON CANTON AIRPORT AT 425 PM. AT 740 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS STILL OVER COLUMBIA AND MAHONING COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST OHIO. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE ON A LINE FROM NEAR DETROIT ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO NEAR TOLEDO AND DEFIANCE TO NEAR FORT WAYNE. ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST ABOUT 35 MPH. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL REACH A LINE FROM SANDUSKY TO DAYTON BY 930 PM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING AHEAD OF THE LINE OVER WESTERN LAKE ERIE AND CENTRAL OHIO. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 8:00 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 12 NOON WED JAN 9 1986 LARGE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST OHIO. WEATHER RADAR AT 1155 AM SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MONROE, NOBLE, NOBLE AND PERRY COUNTIES MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. WIND DAMAGE WAS REPORTED IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY AS ONE OF THE STORMS MOVED THROUGH. TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS MAY CAUSE URBAN STREET AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST OHIO SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT AND SEEK SHELTER IF THE STORMS BECOME THREATENING. NIBERT
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 8:41 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 833 PM EDT WED JUL 08 1986 AT 830 PM ERIE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS..SOME HEAVY..NOW COVERING MOST OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL LAKE ERIE..TO JUST NORTH OF ERIE PENNSYLVANIA. INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR..WHILE THE ENTIRE AREA OF PRECIPITATION WAS SINKING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY MOVE ONSHORE INTO NOR THWEST PENNSYLVANIA LATER THIS EVENING..AND MAY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS..HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. ALSO.. BOATERS ALONG THE PENNSYLVANIA WATERS OF LAKE ERIE..SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER.
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 8:45 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 845 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 1986 AT 840 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO FROM JUST EAST OF TOLEDO TO NEAR VAN WERT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN OHIO AHEAD OF THE LINE. ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST ABOUT 35 MPH. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH A LINE FROM LORAIN TO MARION BY 1030 PM EDT. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MH WERE REPORTED AS THE LINE OF STORMS MOVED THROUGH TOLEDO. THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE OVER MAHONING AND COLUMBIA COUNTIES EARLIER HAVE MOVED INTO WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF OHIO. THOMPSON
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.