Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1987, 1:27 PM EDT for Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 53 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
- Jun 29, 1987, 1:27 PM EDT (17:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1987, 2:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Seneca 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 1:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Seneca, 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
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 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 291727 SVRTOL OHC147-291830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 127 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... SENECA AT 124 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN SENECA COUNTY MOVING EAST AROUND 40 MPH. THIS TH UNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER FROM THIS STORM. KSL
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 29, 12:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 1215 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1987 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ENTERING NORTHWEST OHIO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AT 1210 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS WILLIAMS...DEFIANCE AND PAULDING COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT ALL OF NORTHWEST OHIO SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. KSL C
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 29 min |
| Jun 29, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 56 min |
| Jun 29, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 76 min |
| Jun 29, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Carroll | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry, Putnam | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Putnam | 57 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.