Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1998, 11:35 AM EDT for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 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 13, 1998, 11:35 AM EDT (15:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 12:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Geauga County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:37 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
598 WUUS1 KCLE 131537 RRA SVRCLE OHC055-131640- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1135 AM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GEAUGA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 1240 PM EDT * AT 1133 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES EAST OF DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND OR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RUSSELL CENTER MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... RUSSELL CENTER AUBURN CENTER WELSHFIELD MIDDLEFIELD BURTON .SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS GABRIC
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 | 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, 11:52 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.