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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 9, 1988Henry County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1988, 2:16 PM EDT for Henry County, Ohio. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 1988, 2:16 PM EDT (18:16 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1988, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Henry 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 287 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 284 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 091817
SVRTOL
OHC069-091900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
216 PM EDT MON MAY 9 1988
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHWEST OHIO
          ...HENRY
 
AT 217 PM HENRY COUNTY SHERIFFS REPORTED NICKLE SIZED HAIL 2 MILES
NORTH OF NAPOLEON. MOVEMENT OF THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS NORTHEAST AT 30
MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  8MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
KOOPMEINERS

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, May 9, 11:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1152 AM EDT MON MAY 9 1988

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHWEST
OHIO UNTIL 7 PM EDT.

AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG A COLD FRONT
IN INDIANA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MPH AND WILL
MOVE INTO NORTHWEST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE
POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS.7.. FREQUENT LIGHTNING
AND TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY ALERT TO CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND THE POSSIBLE ISSUANCE OF WARNINGS.

SJN

Special weather statement, May 9, 12:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1240 PM EDT MON MAY 9 1988

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 7 PM EDT.

AT 1235 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN INDIANA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL SPREAD INTO WESTERN OHIO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...
DAMAGING WINDS... FREyQUENT LIGHTNING AND TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH
AREA SHOULD STAY ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND THE POSSIBLE
ISSUANCE OF WARNINGS.

SJN

Special weather statement, May 9, 1:40 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
140 PM EDT MON MAY 9 1988

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN OHIO UNTIL 7 PM EDT.

AT 135 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
FROM FLINT MICHGIAN TO FORT WAYNE INDANIA. FORT WAYNE REPORTED ONE
INCH HAIL WHEN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PASSED TO THEIR SOUTH. THE STORMS
WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL SPREAD INTO WESTERN OHIO THIS
AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
DAMAGING WINDS... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH
AREA SHOULD STAY ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND THE POSSIBLE
ISSUANCE OF WARNING.

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 1:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Fulton	68 min
May 9, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Putnam	32 min
May 9, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	30 min
May 9, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	50 min
May 9, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	46 min
May 9, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Summit	57 min
May 9, 5:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	68 min
May 9, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	64 min
May 9, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga	55 min
May 9, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lake	43 min
May 9, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Coshocton	58 min
May 9, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	51 min
May 9, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Guernsey	64 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.