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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 8, 1998Ottawa County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1998, 1:58 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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
Apr 8, 1998, 1:58 PM EDT (17:58 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 1998, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ottawa County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 241 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-04-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 55 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
55 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 1:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky41 min
Apr 8, 2:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky43 min
Apr 8, 2:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie41 min
Apr 8, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie59 min
Apr 8, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox57 min
Apr 8, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga57 min
Apr 8, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Richland68 min
Apr 8, 3:41 PM EDTTornado WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga64 min
Apr 8, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELake67 min
Apr 8, 3:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Summit, Wayne63 min
Apr 8, 4:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina43 min
Apr 8, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Trumbull57 min
Apr 8, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes44 min
Apr 8, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina37 min
Apr 8, 7:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Summit52 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.