A cold front moved across northern Ohio during the afternoon of August 27th. A line of showers and thunderstorms developed in advance of the front.
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The episode as NWS CLE wrote it up.
A cold front moved across northern Ohio during the afternoon of August 27th. A line of showers and thunderstorms developed in advance of the front. A few of thunderstorms became severe and caused some damage.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 27, 1:12 PM EST, 14 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Cleveland OH 212 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 2016 .SYNOPSIS... High pressure over the Great Lakes and Ohio valley will drift east today. This will allow low pressure to track east across the northern Great Lakes into Ontario on Sunday dragging a cold front across the region. The front will stall across Southern Ohio on Monday. High pressure will build across the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley again on Monday. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... Convection continues to move northeast across IN this morning. Most of this will miss the area and what does arrive will take several more hours. Have gone ahead and kept the area dry through 18z and trimmed back the eastward extent of the precip through late afternoon. Also made some changes to temps with KCLE possibly making another run at 90 degrees today. Original...Satellite shows plenty of moisture moving north through KY IL and Indiana early this morning and current trajectories would bring it into the western third of the area during the day. To our east and northeast however...high pressure has been in place and providing a drier easterly flow into the area. The high will continue moving east today and while much of this moisture is taken north of the area by the models do expect some of the deeper moisture to move into the western counties. East of a KCLE-KMFD line will keep dry. To the west will have slight chance pops developing by mid morning increasing to chance pops in the afternoon. Plenty of sun but still more clouds than yday. Highs mostly upper 80s to near 90. && .SHORT TERM /SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT/... Tonight the influence of the high will be lost...the moisture plume will overspread the entire area. Also...at 00z the NAM shows a short wave moving in from the west. Expect at least scattered showers and thunderstorms ongoing in the west to move east across the area through the overnight. Models have high chance and likely pops for the overnight but did limit pops to chance. Sunday a cold front will drop south across the area. Will begin with chance pops and diminish from the northwest during the afternoon. Monday and Monday night mostly dry as high pressure moves across the region. Tuesday the high will weaken as another cold front approaches from the northwest. Still think we can get a dry day but will have chance pops north Tuesday night as the front moves in. Highs 85 to 90 Sunday and mostly in the mid 80s Monday and Tuesday. && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... A weak se moving cold front may still be close enough to the area for a slight threat for shra in the se on wed. High pressure building back over the area should then provide dry conditions thru fri allowing the drought to worsen. Temps are expected to be near normal. && .AVIATION /18Z Saturday THROUGH Thursday/... An elongated area of thunderstorms extends from Lake Huron south to western Ohio moving north northeast. These thunderstorms will likely impact TOL/FDY through 20Z but will struggle to move eastward into the ridge. The cu field will expand eastward and thicken this afternoon ahead of the approaching showers and thunderstorms. A weakening trend is expected as these storms approach MFD/CLE in the 21-23Z window with coverage of thunderstorms in question. Winds will generally be southerly through the TAF cycle except with lake breezes and a wind shift to the northeast at CLE/ERI. Low level moisture will remain high into tonight. There is some question regarding the extent of cloud cover tonight which will have an impact on which sites develop fog. Expect most sites to see visibilities drop to the MVFR range although IFR remains a possibility, especially where skies clear. Visibilities should improve quickly on Sunday morning with a scattered to broken VFR cu field developing. OUTLOOK...A chance of non-VFR Sunday in sct shra/tsra and again on Wed. && .MARINE... Weak wx features and very warm temps will allow a ne lake breeze to set up for this afternoon. Winds of mainly 10 knots or less will shift to the south tonight then a weak cold front crosses the lake sun causing winds to turn to the nw by late sun then to the ne for mon. The models differ on the timing of another weak cold front that should cross the lake tue or wed but in either case...winds should be out of the nw by late wed and could increase to 10 to 20 knots. && .CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...None. PA...None. MARINE...None. && SYNOPSIS...TK NEAR TERM...TK/Kubina SHORT TERM...TK LONG TERM...Adams AVIATION...KEC MARINE...Adams
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 542 AM EDT SAT AUG 27 2016 LEZ142-143-162-163-OHZ003-006>008-017-018-027-280945- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH OH- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH-LUCAS-WOOD- OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-HANCOCK-SENECA-WYANDOT- 542 AM EDT SAT AUG 27 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE AND NORTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LEZ144>146-164>166-OHZ009>011-019>021-028>031-036>038-047-280945- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM VERMILION TO AVON POINT OH- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM VERMILION TO AVON POINT OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK OH-ERIE-LORAIN- CUYAHOGA-HURON-MEDINA-SUMMIT-CRAWFORD-RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE-MARION- MORROW-HOLMES-KNOX- 542 AM EDT SAT AUG 27 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE...NORTH CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTHEAST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION...MAINLY THIS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LEZ061-147>149-167>169-OHZ012>014-022-023-032-033-089-PAZ001>003- 280945- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RIPLEY TO BUFFALO NY- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE LAKE OH- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT OH- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY-LAKE-GEAUGA- ASHTABULA INLAND-PORTAGE-TRUMBULL-STARK-MAHONING-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE- NORTHERN ERIE-SOUTHERN ERIE-CRAWFORD- 542 AM EDT SAT AUG 27 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE...NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 224 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 2016 OHZ003-006>008-017-018-272030- LUCAS-WOOD-OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-HANCOCK-SENECA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TOLEDO...BOWLING GREEN...PORT CLINTON... FREMONT...FINDLAY...TIFFIN 224 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 2016 A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE I-75 CORRIDOR THIS AFTERNOON. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. THE STRONGEST OF THE STORMS WILL IMPACT LUCAS AND NORTHERN WOOD COUNTIES THROUGH 330 PM. UP TO AN INCH OF RAIN COULD FALL DURING THAT TIME PERIOD.
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:25 UTC.
7 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
An automated sensor at Toledo Express Airport measured a 62 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
Thunderstorm winds downed a tree east of Galion.
Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs.
Thunderstorm winds downed a tree along Stevens Road.
Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs.
Thunderstorm winds downed several small trees near the intersection of Interstate 76 and State Route 57.
An automated sensor at the Akron-Canton Airport measured a 62 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 657456, 657461, 657460, 657458, 657459, 657457, 657455.