Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1987
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 2, 1987, 8:03 PM EDT for Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 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
- Aug 2, 1987, 8:03 PM EDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1987, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Trumbull 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 8:29 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Trumbull, 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 00:00Z, 0.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1182 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KYNG 030003 TORYNG OHC155-030100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 803 PM EDT SUN AUG 2 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHEAST OHIO...TRUMBULL A FUNNEL CLOUDY WAS SPOTTED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OBSERVERS AT 8PM EDT. THIS FUNNEL CLOUD APPEARED TO BE TOUCHING DOWN ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE YOUNGSTOWN MUNICIPAL AIRPORT. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD GO INDOORS TO THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND CHEST. TRY TO PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOURSELF A:ND THE STORM AS POSSIBLE. UDELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 8:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 34 min |
| Aug 2, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain, Medina | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Wayne | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 36 min |
| Aug 2, 9:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Holmes | 34 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.