Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1987, 6:26 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 27, 1987, 6:26 PM EDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1987, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbiana 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 6:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Columbiana, 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2356 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KYNG 272226 SVRYNG OHC029-272330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 626 PM EDT MON APR 27 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHEAST OHIO...COLUMBIANA AT 618 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF LISBON OVERX EASTERN STARK COUNTY. THIS STORM CAUSED DAMAGING WINDS IN CANTON AT ABOUT 535 PM. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. DJT
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, Apr 27, 5:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 500 PM EDT MON APR 27 1987 A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHEASTERN OHIO AND INTO WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA BETWEEN FIVE AND SIX PM. AT 450 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLEVELAND TO AKRON TO MANSFIELD. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE DEVELOPING ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF WARREN OVER EASTERN PORTAGE COUNTY. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL AND WINDS GUSTING TO 40 TO 50 MPH. WINDS OF THIS STRENGTH WILL CAUSE WHOLE TREES TO SWAY AND TWIGS TO BREAK OFF AND FALL. TAYLOR
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 5:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 509 PM EDT MON APR 27 1987 ...COLD FRONT AND THUNDERSTORMS HEADING INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 500 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR KITCHNER ONTARIO SOUTHWARD ACROSS LAKE ERIE TO ALONG THE PENNSYLVANIA OHIO BORDER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EASTWARD AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BEGIN AFFECTING ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND ADJACENT LAKE ERIE WATERS AROUND 530 PM. THESE STORMS WILL CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS ABOVE 40 MILES AN HOUR. PARRISH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Wayne | 30 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.