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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 10, 1998Ashland County, Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 3:06 AM EDT for Ashland County, Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 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: Jun 10, 1998, 3:06 AM EDT (07:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1998, 4:10 AM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Ashland County, OH, Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:06 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 949 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

909 
WUUS1 KCLE 100708 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC005-075-100810-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
306 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
  HOLMES COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO

* UNTIL 410 AM EDT

* AT 304 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANSFIELD OR 7 MILES WEST OF
  PERRYSVILLE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR...
  LOUDONVILLE
  MOHICANVILLE
  NASHVILLE

.SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE
A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

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, Jun 10, 3:05 AM EDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
305 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0150 AM    CAREY                     OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/10/98   WYANDOT                        TREES DOWN

0256 AM                              OH   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/10/98   RICHLAND

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 12:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	48 min
Jun 10, 1:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	65 min
Jun 10, 2:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	50 min

Nearby

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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.