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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 29, 1987Belmont County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1987, 8:07 PM EDT for Belmont County, Ohio. It was in force for 23 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1987, 8:07 PM EDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1987, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Belmont 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1987-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1987-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 290 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
290 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
375 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAK 300014 COR
TORCAK
OHC013-300110-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
807 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1987

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

SOUTHEAST OHIO... BELMONT

AT 805PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
SHADYSIDE IN BELMONT COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTDOORS...ABANDON YOUR CAR AND GO TO A LOW LYING AREA
LIKE A DITCH OR RAVINE.  GET AS LOW AS POSSIBLE AND PROTECT YOUR HEAD
AND CHEST.  IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME ABANDON IT...MOBILE HOME OFFER
NO PROTECTION IN TORNADO-STRENGTH WINDS.

ALTO        ...CORRECTED FOR EXPIRATION TIME...

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock65 min
Jun 29, 8:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot48 min
Jun 29, 8:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain46 min
Jun 29, 8:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca38 min
Jun 29, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga50 min
Jun 29, 8:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELake67 min
Jun 29, 9:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga60 min
Jun 29, 9:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula53 min
Jun 29, 9:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne45 min
Jun 29, 9:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain, Medina65 min
Jun 30, 1:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas33 min
Jun 30, 2:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa61 min
Jun 30, 6:16 PM EDTTornado WarningCLECarroll44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.