Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1998, 6:55 PM EDT for Erie County, Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 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
- Jun 12, 1998, 6:55 PM EDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1998, 7:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Erie County, OH, Huron County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Countywide, OH | There were numerous reports of large hail, mainly in the western portion of the county. |
| Jun 12, 7:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Plymouth, OH | Winds were estimated at 60 miles per hour. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
293 WUUS1 KCLE 122257 RRA SVRCLE OHC043-077-OHZ522-122355- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 655 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO HURON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 755 PM EDT * AT 652 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FROM THE ISLANDS THROUGH PORT CLINTON AND FOSTORIA. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLE AS THESE STORMS MOVE EAST. .GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lucas | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 6:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wood | 119 min |
| Jun 12, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Seneca | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 7:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 7:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Seneca | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 64 min |
| Jun 12, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 79 min |
| Jun 12, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 7:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lorain | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 95 min |
| Jun 12, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 2 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.