Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1998, 8:03 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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
- May 31, 1998, 8:03 PM EDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 9:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Massillion, OH | Trees were downed. |
| May 31, 8:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | North Canton, OH | Trees were downed. |
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -334 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
579 WUUS1 KCLE 010004 RRA SVRCLE OHC151-010105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 803 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STARK COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 905 PM EDT * AT 803 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM MASSILLON TO CANTON TO ALLIANCE. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... BREWSTER MASSILLON CANTON ALLIANCE .SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS GABRIC
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
Local storm report, May 31, 5:57 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
557 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0550 PM NOVELTY OH .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 GEAUGA
0553 PM NEWBURY OH .88 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 GEAUGA
0553 PM NEWBURY OH 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/31/98 GEAUGALocal storm report, May 31, 6:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
617 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0605 PM CONNEAUTVILLE PA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 CRAWFORD
0605 PM CANTON OH 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/31/98 STARK
0614 PM AVON OH .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 LORAINLocal storm report, May 31, 6:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
640 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0617 PM BAY VLG OH .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 CUYAHOGA
0619 PM SHEFFIELD LAKE OH .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 LORAIN
0620 PM BROOKLYN OH .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 CUYAHOGA
0635 PM TWINSBURG OH 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/31/98 SUMMIT
0638 PM EUCLID OH .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 CUYAHOGALocal storm report, May 31, 6:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
640 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0617 PM BAY VLG OH .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 CUYAHOGA
0619 PM SHEFFIELD LAKE OH .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 LORAIN
0620 PM BROOKLYN OH .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 CUYAHOGA
0635 PM TWINSBURG OH 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/31/98 SUMMIT
0638 PM EUCLID OH .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 CUYAHOGALocal storm report, May 31, 7:03 PM EDT, 1 hour before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
703 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0655 PM AUBURN CENTER OH WIND DAMAGE
05/31/98 GEAUGA TREES DOWN. ONE 17 INCH
DIAMETER TREE COMPLETELY
UPROOHTED.Special weather statement, May 31, 7:04 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
OHZ003-006>009-017>019-027-010005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 704 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED... IN OHIO LUCAS HANCOCK WOOD WYANDOT MARION THE TORNADO WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED IN OHIO OTTAWA SANDUSKY SENECA ERIE HURON SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER EXPECTEPD THIS EVENING FOR THE ABOVE COUNTIES BARJENBRUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1998Every severe thunderstorm 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.