Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1998, 8:07 PM EDT for Lake County, Ohio. It was in force for 93 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 12, 1998, 8:07 PM EDT (00:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1998, 9:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lake County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.1 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
- 1057 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1287 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
793 WUUS1 KCLE 130010 RRA SVRCLE OHC085-OHZ525-130140- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 807 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAKE COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 940 PM EDT * AT 807 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM CLEVELAND TO STRONGSVILLE. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST 30 MILES PER HOUR. .SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS RINGO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 96 min |
| Jun 12, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Summit | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 92 min |
| Jun 12, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 95 min |
| Jun 12, 8:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 93 min |
| Jun 12, 8:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 93 min |
| Jun 12, 9:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 10:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina, Wayne | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 11:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 11:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 11:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 12:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 62 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.