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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 13, 1998Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1998, 11:11 AM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report 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 13, 1998, 11:11 AM EDT (15:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1998, 12:15 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:14 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 11:17 AM EDTThunderstorm Wind 55Garfield Hgts, OHWinds were measured gusting to 63 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 nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 223 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

468 
WUUS1 KCLE 131513 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC035-OHZ524-131615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1111 AM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CUYAHOGA COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO

* UNTIL 1215 PM EDT

* AT 1109 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM EXTENDING FROM DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND TO PARMA. THIS
  STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO THE EASTERN SUBURBS SUCH AS
  MAPLE HEIGHTS AND SHAKER HEIGHTS BEFORE NOON.

.SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE
A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

MILLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 8:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina96 min
Jun 12, 8:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELake93 min
Jun 12, 8:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne2 hr
Jun 12, 8:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Summit2 hr
Jun 12, 8:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox, Morrow92 min
Jun 12, 8:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula63 min
Jun 12, 8:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage63 min
Jun 12, 8:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes95 min
Jun 12, 8:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull93 min
Jun 12, 8:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark93 min
Jun 12, 9:02 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit48 min
Jun 12, 9:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning61 min
Jun 13, 10:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Wayne61 min
Jun 13, 11:35 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga65 min
Jun 13, 11:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage63 min
Jun 13, 12:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull62 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.