Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1987, 5:17 PM EDT for Fulton County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 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
- Jul 31, 1987, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1987, 6:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Fulton, 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1322 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOL 312118 SVRTOL OHC051-312220- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 517 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 620 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHWEST OHIO... FULTON AT 515 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO NORTHEAST FULTON COUNTY. THIS STORM PRODUCED LARGE HAIL AND BLEW DOWN TREES IN LENAWEE COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 15 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER FROM THIS STORM. ECKERT/KOOPMEINERS
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, Jul 31, 5:13 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 510 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1987 VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN WERE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 507 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEASTERN LENAWEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN LUCAS AND FULTON COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER, AND SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY. KOOPMEINERS
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.