Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1998, 8:09 PM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1998, 8:09 PM EDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 8:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashland County, OH
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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 010009 RRA SVRCLE OHC005-010055- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 809 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 855 PM EDT * AT 807 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES WEST OF MILLERSBURG OR 3 MILES WEST OF MOHICANVILLE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... LOUDONVILLE .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 12 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 52 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 29 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 29 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 6 minutes 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, 1 hour 5 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, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.