A hazardous weather outlook has replaced a severe thunderstorm warning posted for most of Lucas County and neighboring northern Wood County. The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property, according to the National Weather Service in Cleveland.
Instead, a combination of high heat and humidity will push heat index values into the 95-degree to 100-degree range. There remains a slight risk throughout Saturday for more storms to develop in western Ohio.
The National Weather Service office in Cleveland said a severe thunderstorm packing wind gusts up to 60 mph was tracked over Whitehouse as of 12:39 p.m. and moved east at 15 mph. The cell was part of a line of thunderstorms stretching from near Ann Arbor, to Van Wert, Ohio, that was moving slowly east-northeast…