Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Cleveland, OH

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND AFTERNOON OHIO WEATHER STORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
505 PM EDT MON JUN 8 1987

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND
NORTHEAST OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT...

A COLD FRONT EXTENDING ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTH PART OF LOWER MICHIGAN
WILL PUSH SOUTH INTO NORTHERN OHIO BY DARK. THE FRONT WILL TRIGGER
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA... SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE
SEVERE. LATE THIS AFTERNOON NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
WERE FOUND OVER LAKE EIRE AND THE EXTREME NORTHERN COUNTIES. A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BY CLEVELAND RADAR IN ERIE COUNTY. THE STORM
WAS MOVING RATHER RAPIDLY EAST.

A RATHER STRONG SOUTHWEST AIR FLOW AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT BROUGHT WERY
WARM CONDITIONS TO THE BUCKEYE STATE TODAY. TEMPERATURES PUSHED INTO
THE MID AND UPPER 80S AND LATE THIS AFTERNOON READINGS CONTINUED IN
THIS RANGE. THE COLD FRONT WILL PUSH ACROSS THE STATE TO THE OHIO
VALLEY BY EARLY TUESDAY MORNING WITH SOMEWHAT COOLER AIR. A THREAT OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN OHIO OVERNIGHT... THEN DRY
WEATHER WILL RETURN ON TUESDAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES TUESDAY WILL ONLY BE
IN THE 70S FOR MOST PARTS OF THE STATE.

THE LATEST WEATHER MAP SHOWED A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM LOCATED OVER
EASTERN CANADA WITH A COLD FRONT TRAILING SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE LOWER
GREAT LAKES REGION AND ON INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. A COOL HIGH PRESSURE
SYSTEM WAS CENTERED OVER S~OUTH CENTRAL CANADA AND WAS BUILDING SOUTH
INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND EAST INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION. WARM
HIGH PRESSURE WAS FOUND SOUTH OF THE FRONT TO THE GULF OF MEXICO.

CHUDOWSKY  COR FOR TYPOS.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
532 PM EDT MON JUN 8 1987

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND
NORTHEAST OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE KNOCKED DOWN TREES IN LORAIN COUNTY SHORTLY
AFTER 5PM. HAIL UP ONE AND ONE QUARTER INCH IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED
FROM MONROEVILLE IN HURON COUNTY AT 510 PM. ALSO... 2 INCHES OF RAIN
IN 30 MINUTES WAS REPORTED FROM PITTSFIELD IN LORAIN COUNTY.

THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE NOT PRODUCING DAMAGE HAD BEEN GIVING BRIEF
TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL. POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY IN SOME
AREAS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO THIS EVENING DUE TO
LIGHTNING STRIKES.

AT 525PM...RADAR WAS SHOWING NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS STRUNG OUT EAST
WEST ACROSS THE NORTH THIRD OF OHIO FROM NEAR TOLEDO AND FINDLAY
EAST THROUGH THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES BETWEEN CLEVELAND AND MANSFIELD...
THEN EAST TO BETWEEN AKRON AND YOUNGSTOWN.

THE STORMS WERE RACING EAST NEAR 40 MPH WILE THE BAND OF STORMS SINKS
SLOWLY SOUTH.

THE MANSFIELD CANTON AKRON AREAS ARE EXPECTED TO BE DIRECTLY AFFECTED
BY THUNDERSTORMS... SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE BETWEEN 6 AND 8PM.

THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD DIMINISH FROM TOLEDO TO
CLEVELAND AFTER 7PM.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
559 PM EDT MON JUN 8 1987

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND
NORTHEAST OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT...

AT 558PM...RADAR SHOWED STORMS CONTINUING TO MOVE
THROUGH PORTIONS OF LORAIN AND MEDINA COUNTIES.
PORTIONS OF THESE COUNTIES MAY REPORT LOCALIZED STREET
FLOODING DUE TO THE BARRAGE OF STORMS MOVING THROUGH. STORMS SHOULD
BE ENDING IN LORAIN AND MEDINA COUNTIES BY 7PM.

ELSEWHERE... WARNINGS CONTINUE FOR HURON COUNTY TIL 610 PM...
TRUMBALL AND MAHONING COUNTIES TIL 615 PM... PORTAGE COUNTY TIL 620...
ERIE COUNTY TIL 640 PM... HENRY COUNTY NEAR TOLEDO TIL 640 PM... WAYNE
AND STARK COUNTIES NEAR CANTON AKRON TIL 650 PM.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
606  PM EDT MON JUN 8  1987

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ARE IN EFFECT FOR PORTAGE COUNTY TILL 620P,
SUMMIT COUNTY TILL 630 PM AND STARK AND WAYNE COUNTIES UNTIL 650 PM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM.

AT 605 PM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING
FROM GRASTON OHIO TO ALLIANCE OHIO. THIS LINE IS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST
AT 40 MPH. NUMERIOUS REPORTS OF TREES DOWN AND POWER OUTAGE HAVE BEEN
REPORTED IN SUMMIT AND PORTAGE COUNTY WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS LINE.

EH

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
641  PM EDT MON JUN 8  1987

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR WAYNE AND STARK COUNTIES
OF OHIO TIL 650 PM EDT. AT 620 PM SPOTTERS REPORTED TREES DOWN AND
POWER OUTAGES NEAR DOYLESTOWN OHIO AND JUST WEST OF THE AKRON CANTON
AIRPORT.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM.

AT 640 PM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING
FRON CONGRESS OHIO ACROSS NORTHERN STARK COUNTY TO BEAVER FALLS
PENNSYLVANIA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

EH

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
652 PM EDT MON JUN 8 1987

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL AND
NORTHEAST OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT EXCEPT THE EXTREME NORTHEAST LAKESHORE
COUNTIES TO THE NORTHEAST OF CLEVELAND.

REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE DIMINISHED IN NORTHERN OHIO SINCE 6PM.
PRIOR TO 6PM... TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN ERIE..MEDINA..LORAIN AND HURON
COUNTIES. THERE WAS ONE REPORT OF HAIL OVER 1 INCH IN DIAMETER FROM
NEAR PITTSFIELD. SEVERAL REPORTS OF POWER OUTAGES AND INTENSE RAINS
HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THE LAST BEING 1.37 INCHES IN ROUGHLY 30 MINUTES
FROM THE TOWN OF FLORENCE NEAR INTERSTATE 80 IN ERIE COUNTY BETWEEN 530
AND 6PM.

BRIEF URBAN/LOW LYING AREA FLOODING WILL OCCUR IN A FEW LOCATIONS
THIS EVENING IN THE BAND OF STORMS THAT AT 648PM EXTENDED FROM
FINDLAY TO MANSFIELD TO NEAR CANTON AKRON. STORMS CONTINUE TO RACE
EAST SOUTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH WHILE THE BAND SINKS EVER SO SLOWLY
SOUTH.

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