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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 10, 1986Ottawa County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1986, 9:11 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1986, 9:11 PM EDT (01:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1986, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ottawa 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 1986-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 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 1986-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 182 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
28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTOL 110111
TORTOL
OHC123-110200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
911 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 1986
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
 
OHIO... OTTAWA
 
AT 9 PM NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTINGS WERE
REPORTED TO THE OTTAWA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE.
 
IF YOU ARE TRAPPED OUTDOORS AWAY FROM SAFE SHELTER GO TO A DITCH
OR LOW AREA.  GET AS LOW AS POSSIBLE AND PROTECT YOUR
HEAD AND CHEST.  BE CAREFUL OF FLOODING IN DRAINAGE DITCHES
AND STORM CULVERTS.
 
KSL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 1:22 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula38 min
Jun 11, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning61 min
Jun 11, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull63 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Ohio, 1986Every tornado warning in 1986Tornadoes in 1986

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.