Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1987, 2:33 PM EDT for Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1987, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1987, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Huron 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 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 939 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 021833 SVRCLE OHC077-021930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 233 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... HURON RADAR AT 230 PM INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AT THE SECECA HURON COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOUL}D PASS JUST SOUTH OF NORWALK BY 3PM. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER FROM THIS STORM. MM
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, Jun 2, 2:33 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 235 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1987 A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO WESTERN OHIO AND WERE MOVING EAST ABOUT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS REACHED ERIE AND HURON COUNTIES AND EXTENDS SOUTH TO MANSFILED AND COLUMBUS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH A CLEVELAND TO MILLERSBURG LINE BY 430 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CAUSE HEAVY RAIN..POSSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AS zTHEY MOVE THROUGH THE NORTHERN OHIO COUNTIES. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN OHIO SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE THREATENING WEATHER CONDITONS AND TAKE COVER IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED OR THREATENING CONDITIONS APPROACH. MONTGOMERY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 9:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Seneca | 49 min |
| Jun 1, 10:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Huron | 43 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.