Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1987, 9:18 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1987, 9:18 PM EDT (01:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1987, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ottawa 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1062 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1818 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 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 KTOL 200118 SVRTOL OHC123-200215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 918 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF OHIO...OTTAWA AND ADJOINING WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 910 PM THE OTTAWA COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED 3/4 INCH DIAMETER HAIL JUST NORTH OF THE CITY OF GENOA. T HE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THIS HAIL WAS MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAIN.. DAMAGING WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
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 19, 7:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 717 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1987 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ENTERING THE EXTREME SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO THIS EVENING. AT 715 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PAULDING...PUTNAM AND HANCOCK COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. KSL
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 7:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 730 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1987 A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH EASTERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY THIS EVENING. AT 720 PM CLEVELAND WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEASTERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN BEDFORD HEIGHTS AT 715 PM. RADAR ALSO SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN OHIO FROM THE FINDLAY AREA...JUST SOUTH OF MANSFIELD TO MILLERSBURG. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS... AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. WCR
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.