Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1998, 12:43 PM EDT for Mahoning County, Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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
- Jun 13, 1998, 12:43 PM EDT (16:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mahoning County, OH, Trumbull County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 12:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Newton Falls, OH | |
| Jun 13, 12:55 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Austintown, 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 101 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.
952 WUUS1 KCLE 131645 RRA SVRCLE OHC099-155-131745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1243 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MAHONING COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO TRUMBULL COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 145 PM EDT * AT 1245 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH. TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN NEAR LEAVITTSBURG DUE TO STRONG WIND. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... WARREN BOARDMAN YOUNGSTOWN .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, 11:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 11:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.