Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1987, 7:01 AM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 1987, 7:01 AM EDT (11:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1987, 7:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lucas 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
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 683 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOL 221101 SVRTOL OHC095-221130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 701 AM EDT SAT AUG 22 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHWEST OHIO... LUCAS ...INCLUDING THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE. AT 700 AM EDT A HAM RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED ONE-HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL COVERING THE GROUND AT THE CORNER OF LASKEY AND HARVEST STREETS IN DOWNTOWN TOLEDO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER FROM THIS STORM. ECKERT
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, Aug 22, 3:40 AM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 340 AM EDT SAT AUG 22 1987 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 7 AM THIS MORNING. AT 335 AM CLEVELAND WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM ASHTABULA COUNTY TO THE NORTH CENTRAL SHORES OF LAKE ERIE THEN CONTINUING WEST TO DETROIT. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL ENTER THE NORTH CENTRAL LAKE SHORE COUNTIES AROUND 4AM. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN... WIND GUSTS OF 75 MPH... FREQUENT LIGHTNING... AND LARGE HAIL. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPxRIATE ACTION. SJN
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 4:36 AM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 435 AM EDT SAT AUG 22 1987 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 7 AM THIS MORNING. AT 430 AM CLEVELAND WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM JEFFERSON IN ASHTABULA COUNTY TO CENTRAL LAKE ERIE AND DETROIT. THESE STORMS HAVE BEGUN TO WEAKEN DURING THE PAST HOUR AND CONTINUE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THE STORMS OVER THE LAKE WILL MOVE ONSHORE DURING THE NEXT HOUR EAST OF AVON. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN... WIND GUSTS TO 75 MPH... FREQUENT LIGHTNING... AND LARGE HAIL. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD KEEP STAY ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION. SJN
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 5:33 AM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 530 AM EDT SAT AUG 22 1987 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 525 AM CLEVELAND WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS FROM YOUNGSTOWN TO CLEVELAND AND JUST NORTH OF TOLEDO. THESE STORMS HAVE CONTINUED TO WEAKEN DURING THE PAST HOUR AND WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. LITTLE CHANGE IS EXPECTED WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER NORTHERN OHIO DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. SOME ISOLATED DID PRODUCE SOME HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS. ANDOVER RECIEVED 2.84 INCHES OF RAIN AND NUMEROUS DOWN5ED TREES WERE REPORTED IN MENTOR. SJN
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 5:39 AM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 537 AM EDT SAT AUG 22 1987 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 525 AM CLEVELAND WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS FROM YOUNGSTOWN TO CLEVELAND AND JUST NORTH OF TOLEDO. THESE STORMS HAVE CONTINUED TO WEAKEN DURING THE PAST HOUR AND WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. LITTLE CHANGE IS EXPECTED WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER NORTHERN OHIO DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DID PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS. ANDOVER RECIEVED 2.84 INCHES OF RAIN... A8ND NUMEROUS DOWNED TREE BRANCHES WERE REPORTED IN MENTOR. SJN ...CORRECTED WORDING LAST PARAGRAPH...
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 5:45 AM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 545 AM EDT SAT AUG 22 1987 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHWEST OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 540 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WESTERN LAKE ERIE, ACROSS THE TOLEDO METROPOLITIAN AREA AND INTO FULTON AND WILLIAMS COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH, HAIL, DANGEROUS LIGHTNBING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. MOVEMENT WAS EAST- SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. ECKERT
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 6:31 AM EDT, 30 minutes before
SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR OHIO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 630 AM EDT SAT AUG 22 1987 THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY SAYS THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE TrHUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EASTERN THIRD OF OHIO TODAY. SJN
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.