Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1986, 8:45 PM EDT for Licking County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1986, 8:45 PM EDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1986, 9:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 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
- 1689 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCMH 110045 TORCMH OHC089-110150- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH 845 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 950 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF OHIO... LICKING AT 840PM EDT REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS CONTINUE TO COME INTO THE WEATHER OFFICE, TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS HAVE BEEN REPORTED ACROSS SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...GO INDOORS TO THE BASEMENT OR LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND CHEST. TRY TO HAVE AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOURSELF AND THE STORM AS POSSIBLE. RAMEY
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 10, 3:57 PM EDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
^CRWSPSHTS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT 200 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 1986 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST LEWIS AND WAYNE COUNTWEST VIRGINIA.. AT 4 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAYNE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN LEWIS COUNTY KENTUCKY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST ABOUT 15 MPH AND SHOULD CROSS THESE COUNTIES BY 5 PM. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS..HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL RESULT IN PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND MAY CAUSE SMALL STREAM OVERFLOW... SOME AREA OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY HAVE HAD ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN ALLREADY THIS MORNING AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN IN THESE AREA COULD CAUSE SMALL STREAM TO QUICKY OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. SHOULD FLOODING BECOME LIKLEY SEEK HIGHER GROUND. YOU SHOULD NOT CROSS FLOODED STREAM OR ROADS. END/CH
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
^CRWSPSHTS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT 400 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 1986 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST LEWIS AND WAYNE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA.. AT 4 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAYNE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN LEWIS COUNTY KENTUCKY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST ABOUT 15 MPH AND SHOULD CROSS THESE COUNTIES BY 5 PM. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS..HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL RESULT IN PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND MAY CAUSE SMALL STREAM OVERFLOW... SOME AREA OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY HAVE HAD ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN ALLREADY THIS MORNING AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN IN THESE AREA COULD CAUSE SMALL STREAM TO QUICKY OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. SHOULD FLOODING BECOME LIKLEY SEEK HIGHER GROUND. YOU SHOULD NOT CROSS FLOODED STREAM OR ROADS. END/CH
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:21 PM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 405 PM EDT WED MAY 28 1986 A LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN CABELL COUNTY SOUTHWARD TO WAYNE AND MINGO COUNTIES AT 4PM. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE CHARLESTON AREA SOUTHWARD OVER BOONE COUNTY ABOUT 5 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. AS THESE STORMS ARE MOVING RAPIDLY THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL BE BRIEF. MOTORISTS ARE CAUTIONED THAT VISIBILITIES WILL BE GREATLY DIMINISHED AND PONDING WILL OCURR ON THE ROADWAYS. END/CAIN
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.