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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 2, 1987Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 2, 1987, 8:11 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 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, 8:11 PM EDT (00:11 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 1987, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 34 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
Aug 2, 8:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 56	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 00:00Z, 0.2 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 030011
TORCLE
OHC035-030045-

BULLETIN
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
811 PM EDT SUN AUG 2 1987 

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE 
UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
   
OHIO...CUYAHOGA
 AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE.

SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED OVER NORTHERN CUYAHOGA 
SINCE 800 PM EDT. THE RECENT REPORT OF FUNNELS OVER MIDDLEBURGH
HEIGHTS AT 808 OM EDT. 

PEOPLIE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD GO INDOORS TO THE
LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. PROTECT YOUR HEAD,
CHEST AND EXPOSED SKIN. TRY TO PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOURSELF AND
THE STORM AS POSSIBLE.

MONTGOMERY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 8:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Trumbull	57 min
Aug 2, 8:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	41 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.