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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 16, 1986Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1986, 6:25 PM EDT for Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 1986, 6:25 PM EDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1986, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Medina 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 486 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 960 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 162225
TORCLE
OHC103-162315-

BULLETIN
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
625 PM EDT MON JUN 16 1986 

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE 
UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF
   
OHIO...MEDINA


RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER SOUTHEAST MEDINA COUNTY. THIS
STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

IF YOU ARE TRAPPED OUT DOORS AWAY FROM SAFE SHELTER GO TO A
DITCH OR LOW AREA. GET AS LOW zAS POSSIBLE AND PROTECT YOUR HEAD,
CHEST AND EXPOSED SKIN. BE CAREFUL OF FLOODING IN DRAINAGE DITCHES 
AND STORM CULVERTS.

MM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	55 min
Jun 16, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	61 min
Jun 16, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	58 min
Jun 16, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	55 min
Jun 16, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	61 min
Jun 16, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	57 min
Jun 16, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	64 min
Jun 16, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	59 min
Jun 16, 6:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Summit	61 min
Jun 16, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	62 min
Jun 16, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	61 min
Jun 16, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	65 min
Jun 16, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	66 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.