Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 30, 1987Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1987, 11:00 AM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 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: May 30, 1987, 11:00 AM EDT (15:00 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1987, 12:00 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Stark 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
May 30, 11:12 AM EDT	Hail 0.75	Stark, 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1755 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1131 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCAK 301501
SVRCAK
OHC151-301600-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
1100 AM EDT SAT MAY 30 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1200 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
 
NORTHEAST OHIO... STARK
 
AT 1055 AM EDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BREWSTER IN
SOUTHWEST STARK COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT Z10 MPH.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS
AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.  SEEK SHELTER FROM THIS STORM.
 
FK

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, May 30, 5:45 AM EDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR OHIO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
545 AM EDT SAT MAY 30 1987

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY SAYS THAT
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED IN OHIO TODAY OR TONIGHT.

MAXIMUK

Special weather statement, May 30, 7:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MANSFIELD OH
745 AM EDT SAT MAY 30 1987

A FEW HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED EARLY THIS MORNING IN CENTRAL
OHIO.

AT 740 EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN
KNOX AND MORROW COUNTIES. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
AMITY IN KNOX COUNTY AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH.

SMALL HAIL .. HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS HAVE BEEN
ASSOCIATED WITH THESE FTHUNDERSTORMS.

GB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 1:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	40 min
May 30, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga	61 min
May 30, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	57 min
May 30, 2:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	74 min
May 30, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	70 min
May 30, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	76 min
May 30, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Columbiana	52 min
May 30, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes, Stark	62 min
May 30, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	58 min
May 30, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	64 min
May 30, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Guernsey	65 min
May 30, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	71 min
May 30, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	63 min
May 30, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1987 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

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.