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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 29, 1987Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1987, 2:32 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 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, 2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1987, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Cuyahoga 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, 2:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61	Cuyahoga, 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 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 291835
SVRCLE
OHC035-291930-

BULLETIN
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
232 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1987 

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
   
OHIO...CUYAHOGA
 AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE.

AT 230 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING 
THROUGH LORAIN COUNTY. AT 230 PM 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED
AT AMHERST AND WEST OF ELYRIA.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH AND WILL ENTER WESTERN CLEVELAND
SUBURBS BEFORE 3 PM EDT.

THESE STORMW WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAIN.. c
DAMAGING WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

MAXIMUK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	53 min
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, 2:54 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

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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.