Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1998, 4:04 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 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 16, 1998, 4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 5:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:51 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Numerous trees and power lines were downed. A ham radio operator's transmission tower was downed in Waynesburg. |
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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 419 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
496 WUUS1 KCLE 162006 RRA SVRCLE OHC151-162105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 404 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STARK COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 505 PM EDT * AT 402 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANTON OR 6 MILES WEST OF RICHVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... MASSILLON CANTON NORTH CANTON EAST CANTON LOUISVILLE .SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
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
Local storm report, Jun 16, 3:08 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
308 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0250 PM ASHTABULA OH 1 INCH HAIL
06/16/98 ASHTABULAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 9:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Holmes | 58 min |
| Jun 15, 10:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Holmes | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 11:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Holmes | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Lake | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 3:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Holmes | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 5:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 117 min |
| Jun 16, 6:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lorain | 95 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.