Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 30, 1986, 6:46 PM EDT for Fairfield County, Ohio. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 30, 1986, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 1986, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fairfield 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
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCMH 302246
SVRCMH
OHC045-302330-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
646 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 1986
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
CENTRAL OHIO... FAIRFIELD
AT 640 PM EDT FAIRFIELD COUNTY SHERRIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED TREES DOWN
ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF LANCASTER. COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR SHOWED
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM SOUTHWEST OF LANCASTER MOVING NORTHEAST AT
35 MPH.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS...
DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
FENBERSWhat 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 30, 5:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 545 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1000 PM IN SOUTHERN OHIO... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 539 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN OHIO. TRI STATE AREA COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE: ADAMS...PIKE...SCIOTO...JACKSON...MEIGS. AT 545 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM COLUMBUS OHIO TO NEAR LEXINGTON KENTUCKY. THAT LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. AT THE CURRENT RATE OF PROGRESS SOME OF THE STORMS IN THE LINE SHOULD BE ENTERING ADAMS AND PIKE COUNTIES OF OHIO BETWEEN 700 AND 800 PM. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. END/JMH
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 6:36 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, ELKINS WV 631 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 1986 ...A VERY LARGE STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING INTO EASTERN TYLER COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA... A VERY LARGE STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER TYLER CO IS MOVING EAST AT NEARLY 45 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN HARRISON ..MARION..MONONGALIA AND NORTHERN PRESTON COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR AND A HALF. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY DAMAGING WINDS..FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTING AND HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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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.