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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 23, 1988Lucas County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1988, 12:02 AM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 23, 1988, 12:02 AM EDT (04:02 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 1988, 12:30 AM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Lucas 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

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1988-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1988-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
2137 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
263 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 KTOL 230403
SVRTOL
OHC095-230430-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
1202 AM EDT SAT APR 23 1988
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHWEST OHIO
          ...LUCAS
 
AT 1159 PM A REPORT OF GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE DOUGLAS
ROAD AREA OF THE CITY OF TOLEDO. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THIS HAIL
WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 45 MPH.
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR R
OOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
KSL

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, Apr 22, 11:08 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
1105 PM EDT FRI APR 22 1988

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN WERE MOVING
TOWARDS NORTHWEST OHIO LATE TONIGHT.

AT 1102 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER
HILLSDALE COUNTY IN LOWER MICHIGAN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
EAST-SOUTHEAST AROUND 45 MPH AND MAY MOVE INTO THE EXTREME NORTHERN
PORTIONS OF FULTON AND LUCAS COUNTIES BETWEEN 1115PM AND MIDNIGHT.

RESIDENTS OF FULTON AND LUCAS COUNTIES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS TILL 1230 AM SATURDAY MORNING...
WHEN THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO LAKE ERIE.

KSL

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.