Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1998, 3:18 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 min. 4 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
- Apr 8, 1998, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1998, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 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 19:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 3:27 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Cleveland, OH | |
| Apr 8, 3:35 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Solon, OH | |
| Apr 8, 3:40 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Cleveland Hgts, OH | |
| Apr 8, 3:50 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Gates Mills, 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, 7.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
816 WUUS1 KCLE 081920 RRA SVRCLE OHC035-082015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 318 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 318 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE LAKE ERIE SHORELINE NEAR LAKEWOOD. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE NEAR BURKE LAKEFRONT AIRPORT AND INTO THE EASTERN SUBURBS. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. GABRIC
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
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 1:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
OHZ027>032-036>038-047-082300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 132 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH 7PM THIS EVENING... A WARM FRONT WHICH MOVED NORTHWARD ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY THIS MORNING...HAS ALLOWED WARMER AND MORE UNSTABLE AIR TO SPREAD ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONALLY...A COLD FRONT AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ARE APPROACHING FROM THE MIDWEST AND AS THE COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVE EASTWARD AND INTERACT WITH THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS...THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR AND LARGE HAIL. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY EVEN CONTAIN TORNADOES. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE: WYANDOT...MARION...MORROW...CRAWFORD...RICHLAND...ASHLAND...WAYNE ...STARK...KNOX AND HOLMES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL AND CABLE NEWS MEDIA OR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. MILLER
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 1:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
OHZ027>032-036>038-047-082300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 132 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH 7PM THIS EVENING... A WARM FRONT WHICH MOVED NORTHWARD ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY THIS MORNING...HAS ALLOWED WARMER AND MORE UNSTABLE AIR TO SPREAD ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONALLY...A COLD FRONT AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ARE APPROACHING FROM THE MIDWEST AND AS THE COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVE EASTWARD AND INTERACT WITH THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS...THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR AND LARGE HAIL. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY EVEN CONTAIN TORNADOES. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE: WYANDOT...MARION...MORROW...CRAWFORD...RICHLAND...ASHLAND...WAYNE ...STARK...KNOX AND HOLMES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL AND CABLE NEWS MEDIA OR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. MILLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 41 min |
| Apr 8, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 62 min |
| Apr 8, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 41 min |
| Apr 8, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 59 min |
| Apr 8, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 57 min |
| Apr 8, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 68 min |
| Apr 8, 3:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga | 64 min |
| Apr 8, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 67 min |
| Apr 8, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit, Wayne | 63 min |
| Apr 8, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Trumbull | 57 min |
| Apr 8, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 44 min |
| Apr 8, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 37 min |
| Apr 8, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 52 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.