Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1987, 7:33 PM EDT for Paulding County, Ohio. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1987, 7:33 PM EDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1987, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Paulding 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
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFWA 292333 SVRFWA OHC125-300000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 733 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHWEST OHIO...EASTERN PAULDING AT 628 EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 5 MILES EAST OF PAULDING OHIO MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIpS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY ! THIS STORM IS ACCOMPANIED BY INTENSE LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THESE STORMS CAN ALSO PRODUCE A SMALL TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. RJB
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, Jun 29, 4:21 PM EDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 320 PM EST MON JUN 29 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST FOR MOST OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 315 PM EST...THUNDESTORMS WITH EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL WERE MOVING INTO WESTERN PULASKI COUNTY INDIANA...25 TO 35 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PULASKI..WINAMAC.. AND BEARDSTOWN. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING IMMEDIATELY AS THE THREATENING WEATHER+ APPROACHES. MOWERY
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 4:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 400 PM EST MON JUN 29 1987 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 900 PM EST... AT 4PM EST AN ISOLATED RAINSHOWER WAS LOCATED NEAR WABASH IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. ALSO A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAINS EXTENDS FROM 10 MILES WEST OF WARSAW TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOGANSPORT TO JUST WEST OF LAFAYETTE. ALL THIS PRECIPITATION WAS XMOVING EAST A 40 MPH. MYERS
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 400 PM EST MON JUN 29 1987 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST FOR MOST OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND MUCH OF SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 355 PM EST...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE LOCATED JUST EAST OF KNOX INDIANA...25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH BEND...AND JUST SOUTH OF WINAMAC INDIANA...40 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF LAFAYETTE INDIANA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA 30 MILES WIDE FROM PLYMOUTH INDIANA...20 MILES SOUTH OF SOUTH BEND...TO LAFAYETTE INDIANA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OVER SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN AND LOWER MICHIGAN FROM GARY INDIANA NORTHEAST TO LANSZING MICHIGAN. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 45 MPH. MOWERY
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 450 PM EST MON JUN 29 1987 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM EST FOR MOST OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND MUCH OF SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 4 40 PM EST...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR WARSAW INDIANA...32 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND...THROUGH LOGANSPORT INDIANA TO JUST EAST OF LAFAYETTE INDIANA. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. IF THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY. MOWERY
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 6:57 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 603 PM EST MON JUN 29 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST... ...SVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR HUNTINGTON IN. AT 600 PM EST THE SEVERE WARNING FOR HUMTINGTON COUNTY FOR NORTHEAST INDIANA IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WIND EXTENDS FROM 10 NE OF FORT WAYNE TO 15 MILES SE OF FORT WAYNE TO 20 MILES SE OF MAHRION INDIANA. ALL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. ALSO AT 547 PM EST STATE POLICE REPORTED 40 MPH WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN NORTHWEST ADAMS COUNTY OF NORTHEAST INDIANA. RJB
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 7:05 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 600 PM EST MON JUN 29 1987 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM EST FOR MOST OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND MUCH OF SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 5 50 PM EST...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CONTINUED OVER INDIANA IN A BAND 25 TO 30 MILES WIDE FROM LAFAYETTE INDIANA TO FORT WAYNE INDIANA. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. ALTHOUGH THE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN HAVE WEAKENEDL THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER REMAINS. MOWERY
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.