Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1998, 2:19 PM EDT for Erie County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 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
- Apr 8, 1998, 2:19 PM EDT (18:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1998, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2:35 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Sandusky, OH | |
| Apr 8, 2:49 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Sandusky, 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
489 WUUS1 KCLE 081821 RRA SVRCLE OHC043-081900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 219 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...ERIE COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WHITES LANDING IN SANDUSKY COUNTY. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. THIS STORM WILL MOVE TOWARD CASTALIA AND SANDUSKY THROUGH 300 PM EDT. HAIL IN EXCESS OF THREE QUARTER INCHES HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. MILLER
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
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 1:32 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
OHZ027>032-036>038-047-082300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 132 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH 7PM THIS EVENING... A WARM FRONT WHICH MOVED NORTHWARD ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY THIS MORNING...HAS ALLOWED WARMER AND MORE UNSTABLE AIR TO SPREAD ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONALLY...A COLD FRONT AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ARE APPROACHING FROM THE MIDWEST AND AS THE COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVE EASTWARD AND INTERACT WITH THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS...THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR AND LARGE HAIL. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY EVEN CONTAIN TORNADOES. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE: WYANDOT...MARION...MORROW...CRAWFORD...RICHLAND...ASHLAND...WAYNE ...STARK...KNOX AND HOLMES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL AND CABLE NEWS MEDIA OR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. MILLER
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 1:32 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
OHZ027>032-036>038-047-082300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 132 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH 7PM THIS EVENING... A WARM FRONT WHICH MOVED NORTHWARD ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY THIS MORNING...HAS ALLOWED WARMER AND MORE UNSTABLE AIR TO SPREAD ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONALLY...A COLD FRONT AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ARE APPROACHING FROM THE MIDWEST AND AS THE COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVE EASTWARD AND INTERACT WITH THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS...THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR AND LARGE HAIL. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY EVEN CONTAIN TORNADOES. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE: WYANDOT...MARION...MORROW...CRAWFORD...RICHLAND...ASHLAND...WAYNE ...STARK...KNOX AND HOLMES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL AND CABLE NEWS MEDIA OR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. MILLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 41 min |
| Apr 8, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 62 min |
| Apr 8, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 59 min |
| Apr 8, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 57 min |
| Apr 8, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 57 min |
| Apr 8, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 68 min |
| Apr 8, 3:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga | 64 min |
| Apr 8, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 67 min |
| Apr 8, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit, Wayne | 63 min |
| Apr 8, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Trumbull | 57 min |
| Apr 8, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 44 min |
| Apr 8, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 37 min |
| Apr 8, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.