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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1998, 8:57 PM EDT for Trumbull 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, 8:57 PM EDT (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1998, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Trumbull County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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.
138 WUUS1 KCLE 130059 RRA SVRCLE OHC151-155-130230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 857 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STARK COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO TRUMBULL COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 1030 PM EDT * AT 856 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM CONCORD TO WOOSTER. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LINE OF SEVERE STORMS. .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, 8:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 93 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 | 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.