Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1986, 5:30 PM EDT for Crawford County, Ohio. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1986, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1986, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, OH
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 6:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Crawford, OH |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 507 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1056 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:29 PM EDT, 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTON OH 525 PM EDT MON JUN 16 1986 AT 520 PM EDT HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH MERCER COUNTY OHIO. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST SOUTH OF SANDUSKY OHIO SOUTHWEST TO TERRE HAUTE INDIANA. THERE WERE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN, WIND GUST TO 40 MPH, AND POSSIBLEY SMALL HAIL ACROSS CENTRAL MERCER COUNTY OHIO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUT0HEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO DARKE, SHELBY, AND LOGAN COUNTIES IN OHIO BETWEEN 530 AND 600 PM EDT. GCL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Van Wert | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Allen | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.