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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 8, 1987Lorain County, Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1987, 5:02 PM EDT for Lorain County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 min. 2 reports 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
Jun 8, 1987, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1987, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lorain County, OH, Medina 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 8, 5:07 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 0Lorain, OH
Jun 8, 5:36 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 0Medina, 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1987-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 20 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1987-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 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
20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-383 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1483 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 082102
SVRCLE
OHC103-093-082200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
502 PM EDT MON JUN 8 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF
 
NORTHEAST OHIO... MEDINA
 
NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... LORAIN
 
...INCLUDING THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE.
 
AT 458PM RADAR INDICATED A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM 5x MILES WEST OF
OBERLIN NEAR THE LORAIN AND HURON COUNTY LINE.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS
AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.  SEEK SHELTER FROM THIS STORM.
 
WHEELER

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 8, 2:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
243 PM EDT MON JUN 8 1987

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING NORTHWEST OHIO EARLY THIS
AFTERNOON.

AT 240 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING EAST TO WEST ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN. THESE SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL
ENTER NORTHERN FULTON AND NORTHERN LUCAS COUNTIES AROUND 3PM.

BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY
THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.

PEOPLE THROUGHOUT NORTHWEST OHIO SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
KSL
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:53 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
450  PM EDT MON JUN 8  1987

AT 445 PM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING
FRON JUST NORTH OF MEDINA OHIO EAST TkHRU RAVENNA OHIO TO PARKER CITY
PENNSYLVANIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MPH.
HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN NORTHERN SUMMIT AND NORTHERN
PORTAGE COUNTIES OF OHIO.

EH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron60 min
Jun 8, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull62 min
Jun 8, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage59 min
Jun 8, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit61 min
Jun 8, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHenry65 min
Jun 8, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie49 min
Jun 8, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Wayne62 min
Jun 8, 6:02 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEColumbiana, Mahoning28 min
Jun 8, 6:35 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEColumbiana30 min
Jun 8, 6:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock, Wyandot45 min
Jun 8, 6:55 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEColumbiana35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1987Every 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.