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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 15, 1986Erie County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 15, 1986, 8:24 PM EDT for Erie County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1986, 8:24 PM EDT (00:24 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1986, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
51 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, 0.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1986-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 19 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1986-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 145 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
283 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 KCLE 160025
TORCLE
OHC043-160115-

BULLETIN
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
824 PM EDT THU MAY 15 1986 

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE 
UNTIL 915 PM E

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 8:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie59 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.