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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 30, 1987Lucas County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1987, 1:37 PM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 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 30, 1987, 1:37 PM EDT (17:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1987, 2:10 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Lucas 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 30, 1:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Lucas, 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

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTOL 301737
SVRTOL
OHC095-301810-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
137 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 210 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
 
NORTHWEST OHIO... LUCAS
 
...INCLUDING THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE.
 
AT 133 PM A WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE REPORTED WIND DAMAGE IN THE
NORTHERN PART OF LUCAS COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THESE
DAMAGING WINDS WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM 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 30, 1:07 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
102 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 1987

THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING ACROSS FULTON
AND LUCAS COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.

AT 1255 PM THE FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN
OCCURRING ACROSS NORTHERN FULTON COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS LUCAS
COUNTY BETWEEN 1 PM AND 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AS
WELL AS MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS.

KSL

Local storm report, Jun 30, 1:34 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA
128 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 1987

DATE       TIME      OCCURANCE
6/27       9:20PM    3/4 INCH HAIL AT NORTH SPRINGFIELD BY CO-OP OBSVR.
                     ERIE COUNTY

6/29       10:29PM   LARGE TREES DOWN SAEGERSTOWN  CRAWFORD COUNTY
           10:35PM   TREES DOWN NEAR JAMESTOWN CRAWFORD COUNTY
           10:50PM   TREES DOWN ONTO POWER LINES CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS
                     CRAWFORD COUNTY
           10:53PM   TREES DOWN ONTO POWER LINES CORRY ERIE COUNTY
           11:10PM   TREES DOWN 61/2 MIS N OF TITUSVILLE CRAWFORD COUNTY
NUMEROUS REPORTS OF LIGHTNING INDUCED FIRES TORRENTIAL RAINS PEA SIZE HAIL
AND HIGH WINDS THAT DID NOT CAUSE DAMAGE IN OPEN RURAL AREAS AND POWER
OUTAGES THRUOUT ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES.

BELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 8:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	65 min
Jun 29, 8:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Belmont	23 min
Jun 29, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	48 min
Jun 29, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	46 min
Jun 29, 8:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	38 min
Jun 29, 8:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	50 min
Jun 29, 8:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lake	67 min
Jun 29, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga	60 min
Jun 29, 9:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	53 min
Jun 29, 9:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	45 min
Jun 29, 9:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain, Medina	65 min
Jun 30, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	61 min
Jun 30, 6:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Carroll	44 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.