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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Cleveland, OH

March 10, 1986Wyandot County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 1986, 5:38 PM EST for Wyandot County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 10, 1986, 5:38 PM EST (22:38 UTC)
Expired
Mar 10, 1986, 6:29 PM EST
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wyandot 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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 129 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1986-03-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1986-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 422 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
422 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
421 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 102238 RRA
TORTOL
OHC175-102345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
538 PM EST MON MAR 10 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

OHIO...WYANDOT

AT 530 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN WYANDOT COUNTY. POSSIBLE TORNADOS HAVE
BEEN REPORTED IN HARDIN COUNTY NEAR KENTON. THESE STORMS ARE
MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD GO INDOORS TO THE LOWEST
FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS.  PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND
CHEST.  TRY TO PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOURSELF AND THE STORM AS
POSSIBLE.

 JOHNSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 10, 5:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEJefferson40 min
Mar 10, 5:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron48 min
Mar 10, 6:11 PM ESTTornado WarningCLEErie, Huron49 min
Mar 10, 6:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain44 min
Mar 10, 6:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina45 min
Mar 10, 6:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga41 min
Mar 10, 6:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit58 min
Mar 10, 6:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes, Wayne63 min
Mar 10, 6:58 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Lake47 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.