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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH

March 10, 1986Erie County, Huron County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 1986, 6:11 PM EST for Erie County, Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 10, 1986, 6:11 PM EST (23:11 UTC)
Expired
Mar 10, 1986, 7:00 PM EST
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Erie County, OH, Huron 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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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, Detroit, MI 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1986-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 242 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
1065 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 5:38 PM ESTTornado WarningCLEWyandot51 min
Mar 10, 5:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron48 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.