Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1987, 5:40 PM EST for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 20 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 1987, 5:40 PM EST (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 1987, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashtabula 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 252241 SVRCLE OHC007-252300- BULLETIN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO 540 PM EST WED MAR 25 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF OHIO...ASHTABULA AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE. AT 530 THIS EVENING DIME SIZED HAIL FELL ON HARPERSFIELD IN ASHTABULA COUNTY. CLEVELAND WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THAT THE STORM WHICH DROPPED THIS HAIL WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD WATCH FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAIN.. DAMAGING WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNIxNG. PEROUTKSA
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, Mar 25, 2:14 PM EST, 3 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 213 PM EST WED MAR 25 1987 A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HASE DEVELOPED OVER NORTHEAST OHIO. AT 205 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF WARREN TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF CANTON. THE LINE OF STORMS IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AS THEY MOVE ACROSS EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. TAYLOR
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 2:48 PM EST, 2 hours 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 248 PM EST WED MAR 25 1987 THE FIRST THUNDERSTORMS OF THE YEAR WERE MOVING THROUGH ASHTABULA COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. AT 240 PM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CENTRAL ASHTABULA COUNTY TO EAST OF AKRON-CANTON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE EAST OF ASHTABULA COUNTY BY 4 PM. KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 3:04 PM EST, 2 hours 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 255 PM EST WED MAR 25 1987 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARDS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 250 PM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER ASHTABULA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...THESE STORMS WILL MOVE TO THE PENNSYLVANIA BORDER ALONG WESTERN SECTIONS OF CRAWFORD AND ERIE COUNTIES BY 400 PM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...THE HEAVIEST OF THESE ARE IN A BAND FROM NEAR WARREN SOUTHWESTWARD TO BUTLER IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA... SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND IN PARTICULAR HAIL...HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED UP TO GOsLF BALL SIZE NEAR ZELIENOPLE IN SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. PARRISH
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 3:46 PM EST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 340 PM EST WED MAR 25 1987 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 340 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MUCH OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...IN THE NORTHWEST THE STRONGEST STORMS HAVE ENTERED THE WESTERN HALF OF ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. PARRISH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 6:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Belmont | 64 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.