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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 27, 1987Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1987, 8:41 PM EDT for Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 1987, 8:41 PM EDT (00:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1987, 9:08 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1352 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 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 280041
TORCLE
OHC055-085-280110-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
841 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 910 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF
 
NORTHEAST OHIO... GEAUGA... LAKE
 
...INCLUDING THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE.
 
AT 833 PM... A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN WILLOWICK. THE TH7UNDERSTORM
PRODUCING THE SEVERE WEATHER WAS MIOVING EAST SOUTHEAST ACROSS EXTREME
SOUTHWEST LAKE COUNTY INTO NORTHWEST GEAUGA COUNTY.
 
IF YOU ARE INDOORS GET TO THE BASEMENT OR LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE IN AN
INTERIOR ROOM LIKE A CLOSET OR BATHROOM.  IF NO SUCH ROOM IS AVAILABLE
GET UNDER A STURDY STRUCTURE LIKE A STAIRCASE OR WORKBENCH.  AVOID AREAS
WITH WINDOWS.

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.