Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 27, 1986, 2:18 PM EDT for Licking County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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
- Sep 27, 1986, 2:18 PM EDT (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 1986, 3:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Licking 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2:45 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Licking, 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 730 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCMH 271818
SVRCMH
OHC089-271920-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
218 PM EDT SAT SEP 27 1986
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 320 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
CENTRAL OHIO... LICKING
AT 212 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OV4ER
WEST LICKING COUNTY...MOVING EAST ABOUT 35 MPH.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS...
DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
SIMPSONWhat 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, Sep 27, 11:30 AM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND MIDDAY WEST VIRGINIA WEATHER STORY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1130 AM EDT SAT SEP 27 1986 SOME AREAS OF NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA RECEIVED HEAVY AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL DURING THE PAST 24-HOURS. THIS AREA STRETCHED WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE STATE FROM JUST NORTH OF CHARLESTON REACHING NORTHWARD TO PARKERSBURG AND ELKINS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS RANGED FROM ONE TO TWO INCHES. LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE NEAR SMALL STREAMS IN THIS AREA AS SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE STATE. RESIDENTS OF THIS AREA SHOULD AWARE THAT LOCAL FLOODING IS POSSIBLE DURING HEAVY DOWNPOURS. A FEW 24-HOUR RAINFALL AMOUNTS INCLUDED 2.20 INCHES AT ELIZABETH.. 1.95 AT WESTON.. 1.82 AT WEST UNION.. 1.79 AT WEBSTER SPRING.. 1.74 AT RIPLEY AND ELKINS.. 1.68 AT BIRCH RIVER.. 1.65 AT PARKERSBURG.. AND 1.39 AT PHILLIPI. LOT OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE KEPT CLOUDY SKIES OVER WEST VIRGINIA DURING THE MORNING. MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONCENTRATED ALONG THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHEASTERN PORTION OF THE STATE. BUT OUR UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL KEEP THE THREAT OF SHOWERS STATE-WIDE. THE MAIN FRONTAL ZONE WAS NORTH OF OUR AREA THROUGH DELAWARE..CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA..TO CENTRAL MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN. THIS FRONT WILL SAG SOUTHWARD THIS AFTERNOON..REACHING THE NORTHEASTERN COUNTIES OF THE STATE BY EVENING. SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS ACROSS THE AREA WILL KEEP WARM AIR COMING INTO WEST VIRGINIA THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO NEXT WEEK. SO THE THREAT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY. AFTERNOON READINGS WILL CONTINUE TO PEAK IN THE 80S. END/WILSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Muskingum | 60 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.