Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 66, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1998, 7:18 PM EDT for Morrow County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1998, 7:18 PM EDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1998, 9:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morrow County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1091 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 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 flash flood 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, Jun 28, 5:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
LEZ530-OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-520>526- PAZ001>003-520-282350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 553 PM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT TIL 11 PM FOR ALL OF NORTHERN OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO FOR EARLY TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO THIS EVENING. SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE OCCURRED WITH LARGE HAIL. QUARTER SIZE HAIL OCCURRED IN GILFORD TOWNSHIP OF MEDINA COUNTY AT 533 PM. THE WINDS GUSTED TO 71 MPH NEAR TIFFIN AT 528 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN HAVE GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH AND HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER. ALSO HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR AND THAT COULD CAUSE SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADS AND STREAMS. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF NEEDED. KIELTYKA KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 5:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
LEZ530-OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-520>526- PAZ001>003-520-282350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 553 PM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT TIL 11 PM FOR ALL OF NORTHERN OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO FOR EARLY TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO THIS EVENING. SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE OCCURRED WITH LARGE HAIL. QUARTER SIZE HAIL OCCURRED IN GILFORD TOWNSHIP OF MEDINA COUNTY AT 533 PM. THE WINDS GUSTED TO 71 MPH NEAR TIFFIN AT 528 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN HAVE GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH AND HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER. ALSO HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR AND THAT COULD CAUSE SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADS AND STREAMS. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF NEEDED. KIELTYKA KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Richland | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 32 min |
| Jun 27, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 9:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 10:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 1:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Sandusky | 61 min |
| Jun 28, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 63 min |
| Jun 28, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 5:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Seneca | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 6:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 6:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 49 min |
| Jun 28, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 63 min |
| Jun 28, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 35 min |
| Jun 28, 6:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 6:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford, Richland | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 7:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland, Holmes | 52 min |
| Jun 28, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 63 min |
| Jun 28, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 7:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 7:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford, Wyandot | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.