Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1986, 11:52 PM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1986, 11:52 PM EDT (03:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1986, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 68 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 00:00Z, 3.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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 KTOL 160352 SVRTOL OHC095-160500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 1152 PM EDT TUE JUL 15 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF OHIO... LUCAS AT 1148 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN LENAWEE COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THESE THUNDBERSTORMS 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, Jul 15, 10:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
^CLESPSTOL SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 1044PM EDT TUE JUL 15 1986 VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING CLOSER TO OHIO LATE THIS EVENING. AT 1040 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST WEST OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN MICHIGAN. THIS LINE HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. BY 1145 PM THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL BE ENTERING WILLIAMS, FULTON AND LUCAS COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS, VERY HEAVY RAIN, DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED, TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. REPORT ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. ECKERT
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 11:36 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
^CLESPSTOL SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 1135PM EDT TUE JUL 15 1986 VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST OHIO LATE THIS EVENING. AT 1130 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM DETROIT, MICHIGAN INTO EXTREME NORTHERN WILLIAMS AND FULTON COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DID PRODUCE WINDS OF 40 TO 45 MPH AS THEY PASSED THROUGH ADRIAN, MICHIGAN. ALSO NUMEROUS TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN NEAR ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH WILLIAMS, FULTON AND LUCAS COUNTIES AND INTO DEFIANCE AND HENRY COUNTIES BY 1230 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS, VERY HEAVY RAIN, DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY HAIL. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED, TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. REPORT ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATH8ER SERVICE. ECKERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 1:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 33 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.