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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 2, 1987Huron County, Ohio

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1987-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 939 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1987-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 9:31 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESeneca49 min
Jun 1, 10:17 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHuron43 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.