Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1988, 3:35 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1988, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1988, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Summit County, OH
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 4:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Summit, OH |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 1781 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Aug 5, 1:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 145 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 1988 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A SMALL PORTION OF NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 10 PM TODAY. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF TOLEDO... FINDLAY AND LIMA. AT 135 PM... WEATHER RADAR INDICATED BANDS OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR LANSING MICHIGAN TO JUST WEST OF HILLSDALE INTO NORTHWEST INDIANA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS DOTTED THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES OF OHIO FROM ASHTABULA TO NORTH OF LORAIN THEN BECAME ORGANIZED AS A NORTH... SOUTH LINE FROM LORAIN SOUTH THROUGH OBERLIN AND MANSFIELD. AT 105 PM.. A THUNDERSTORM DUMPED PEA SIZED HAIL IN NEW LONDON OF HURON COUNTY ALONG WITH A QUARTER INCH OF RAIN IN 5 MINUTES. LIGHTNING CAUSED NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES IN THAT COMMUNITY. ^ THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO AND THE THE WATERS OF LAKE ERIE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL ESPRECIALLY OVER THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE STATE. DRAG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 64 min |
| Aug 5, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 59 min |
| Aug 5, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 58 min |
| Aug 5, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | McKean | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.