Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1986, 8:10 PM EDT for Erie County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 1986, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1986, 9:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 608 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 130010 SVRCLE OHC043-130110- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 810 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 910 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... ERIE ...INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. AT 8 PM RADAR INDICATED POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE LAKESHORE JUST WEST OF SAND USKY MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS... DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. RJM
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 12, 4:57 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND AFTERNOON OHIO WEATHER STORY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 458 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND ALL OF SOUTHERN OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE AREA IN OHIO NEAR AND SOUTH OF A DAYTON, COLUMBUS, AND WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA LINE. DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON, WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS THE STATE. MOST OF THE STORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL COUNTIES. NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WERE REPORTED. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN NUMBER AND INTENSITRY THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH SOME STORMS LIKELY BECOMING SEVERE. CONSIDERABLE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE IN THE BUCKEYE STATE THROUGH SUNDAY BEFORE MORE STABLE CONDITIONS MOVE INTO THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. A BROAD FLOW OF WARM AND HUMID AIR OVER OHIO WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A LARGE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE ACROSS THE MID SECTION OF THE COUNTRY. THIS UNSTABLE WARM AND HUMID AIR WILL BE MAINLY RESPONSIBLE IN TRIGGERING THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE LOW PRESSURE TO THE WEST WILL PASS THROUGH THE GREAT LAKE REGION AND THE OHIO VALLEY AREA LATE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT ALLOWING DRIER AIR FROM THE WEST TO OVERSPREAD THE STATE. LATE AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WERE MOSTLY IN THE UPPER 70 TO LOWER 80 DEGREE RANGE. CLOUDINESS AND PRECIPITATION WAS HOLDING TEMPERATURES DOWN IN MANY AREAS. ALTHOUGH TEMPERATURES WERE NOT EXTREMELY HIGH, THE HUMIDITY LEVELS WERE QUITE HIGH MAKING AFTERNOON CONDITIONS VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. THE LATEST WEATHER MAP SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE MID SECTION OF THE NATION. A CENTER OF LOW PRESSURE WAS FOUND OVER EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA WITH A WARM FRONT MEANDERING EAST ACROSS THE LOWER GREAT LAKES REGION TO THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND COAST. A WARM AND HUMID AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO EXTENDED NORTH TO THE OHIO VALLEY AND THE MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AREAS. CHUDOWSKY
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 5:11 PM EDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND AFTERNOON OHIO WEATHER STORY CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 512 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND ALL OF SOUTHERN OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE AREA IN OHIO NEAR AND SOUTH OF A DAYTON, COLUMBUS, AND WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA LINE. DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON, WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS THE STATE. MOST OF THE STORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL COUNTIES. NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WERE REPORTED. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN NUMBER AND INTENSITRY THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH SOME STORMS LIKELY BECOMING SEVERE. CONSIDERABLE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE IN THE BUCKEYE STATE THROUGH SUNDAY BEFORE MORE STABLE CONDITIONS MOVE INTO THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. A BROAD FLOW OF WARM AND HUMID AIR OVER OHIO WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A LARGE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE ACROSS THE MID SECTION OF THE COUNTRY. THIS UNSTABLE WARM AND HUMID AIR WILL BE MAINLY RESPONSIBLE IN TRIGGERING THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE LOW PRESSURE TO THE WEST WILL PASS THROUGH THE GREAT LAKE REGION AND THE OHIO VALLEY AREA LATE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT ALLOWING DRIER AIR FROM THE WEST TO OVERSPREAD THE STATE. LATE AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WERE MOSTLY IN THE UPPER 70 TO LOWER 80 DEGREE RANGE. CLOUDINESS AND PRECIPITATION WAS HOLDING TEMPERATURES DOWN IN MANY AREAS. ALTHOUGH TEMPERATURES WERE NOT EXTREMELY HIGH, THE HUMIDITY LEVELS WERE QUITE HIGH MAKING AFTERNOON CONDITIONS VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. THE LATEST WEATHER MAP SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE MID SECTION OF THE NATION. A CENTER OF LOW PRESSURE WAS FOUND OVER EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA WITH A WARM FRONT MEANDERING EAST ACROSS THE LOWER GREAT LAKES REGION TO THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND COAST. A WARM AND HUMID AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO EXTENDED NORTH TO THE OHIO VALLEY AND THE MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AREAS. CHUDOWSKY CORRECTED TO CHANCE DATE..
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 6:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
^CLESPSTOL
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
603 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 1986
HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST OHIO.
AT 6 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
THUNDERSTORMS OVER DEFIANCE AND PAULDING COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST
OHIO.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE
INTO HENRY COUNTY BY 615 PM.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN.. GUS,TY WINDS..
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.. AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.
RAR
[Special weather statement, Jul 12, 6:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 650 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT. AT 640 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR ZANESVILLE TO PORTSMOUTH MOVING EAST ABOUT 35 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTOMRMS WERE IN NORTHWEST OHIO, INDIANA, SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN ONTARIO. AN OFF DUTY POLICE_ OFFICER REPORTED 60 TO 70 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PEA SIZED HAIL IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF LANCASTER. HEAVY RAINS WERE REPORTED IN HOCKING AND PERRY COUNTIES BETWEEN 6 AND 630 PM. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 7:39 PM EDT, 31 minutes before
^CLESPSCAK
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
738 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 1986
AT 710 PM EDT SENECAVILLE, OH CORPS OF ENGINEERS REPORTED VERY HEAVY
RAIN.. LOTS OF LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS ESTIMATED AT 50 MPH. AT 730 PM
EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THIS SAME STORM OVER QUAKER CITY, OH MOVING
TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD
BE ON THE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGExROUS
LIGHTNING FOR THE NEXT HOUR. QUAKER CITY REPORTED AT 735 PM EDT VERY
HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND A BRIEF GUST OF
WIND.
MARTIN {Special weather statement, Jul 12, 7:45 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 553 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT. AT 550 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR COLUMBUS TO THE OHIO RIVER JUST WEST OF PORTSMOUTH. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST ABOUT 35 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH WERE REPORTED FROM CINCINNATI AS THESE T!HUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHERN KENTUCKY AS WELL AS NORTHERN OHIO LAND SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN. THOMPSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 8:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Paulding | 56 min |
| Jul 12, 8:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Putnam | 44 min |
| Jul 12, 8:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Defiance | 59 min |
| Jul 12, 8:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Hancock | 56 min |
| Jul 12, 9:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Putnam | 56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.