Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 3:38 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 2, 1998, 3:38 PM EDT (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 4:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashtabula County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:45 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Andover, OH |
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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
209 WUUS1 KCLE 021940 RRA SVRCLE OHC007-OHZ526-PAZ520-022025- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 338 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ASHTABULA COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 425 PM EDT * AT 337 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN ASHTABULA COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... JEFFERSON PIERPONT .SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS BARJENBRUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 3:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark | 36 min |
| Jun 2, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 3:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 67 min |
| Jun 2, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 4:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark | 51 min |
| Jun 2, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 51 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.