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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1998, 9:27 PM EDT for Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 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 24, 1998, 9:27 PM EDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1998, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Huron County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 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 24, 10:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Many trees were downed. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1078 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 250128 RRA SVRCLE OHC077-250230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 927 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HURON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 1030 PM EDT * AT 924 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN SANDUSKY COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS WERE REPORTED IN CLYDE. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... MONROEVILLE NORWALK PERU SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! & 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.
NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 24, 2:45 AM EDT, 18 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:45 AM EDT, 18 hours 42 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 245 AM EDT WED JUN 24 1998 AREAS OF FOG THIS AM SHUD BE SIGNIFICANT ENUF TO JUSTIFY EARLY MENTION IN ZONES...ESP ACRS S CWA COUNTIES. MVC CURRNTLY PUSHING TWD SE THRU W CNTL OH...ASSOCIATED -SHRA HAVE BEEN DISSIPATING DURG PAST COUPLE OF HRS WITHIN AREA OF SFC MSTR DIVERGC/RELATIVELY STABLE ENVIRONMENT. THIS FEATURE CUD PRODUCE A FEW SHRA/TSRA BY MID-MORNING AS IT PUSHES INTO MORE UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACRS S/SE COUNTIES...PER 03Z RUC QPF BY 15Z...BUT SHUD AFFECT A RELATIVELY SMALL AREA. NEXT PSBL FCST PROBLEM IN SHORT TERM IS EVOLUTION OF MCS ACRS UPR MS RVR VLY. COMBINED IR/LTG DATA SUGGESTS MCS IS TURNING CORNER AND STARTING TO PROPAGATE TWD ESE...00Z-03Z MDLS DO NOT APPR TO BE HANDLING THIS MOVEMNT WELL. ALSO OF CONCERN IS APPARENT POOLING OF HIER DWPTS/INSTABILITY ACRS NE IN PER AWIPS LAPS DATA...COMBINED WITH SE TRACK OF LEADING MVC PRESENTS PSBLTY THAT MCS MIGHT DROP SE...OR THAT BAND OF TSTMS MAY DEVELOP TWD SE PER 0Z NGM QPF...AND INTO CWA WITHIN NEXT 10 HRS. HOWEVER...BUILDING HEIGHTS BEHIND LEADING MVC MAY INHIBIT SE PROGRESSION OF TSTMS. FOR NOW...SUGGEST CHC POPS BY ARND MIDDAY AS FAR S AS DAY/CMH...AND WUD NOT BE TOO SURPRISED IF TSTMS DEVELOPED INTO S COUNTIES AS WELL. CAN ALWAYS REMOVE POPS BY MID-MORNING IF WORSE CASE SCENARIO DOES NOT PAN OUT. TONIGHT AND THU...CHC POPS IN ORDER ACRS FAR NW COUNTIES DUE TO PROXIMITY TO UPSTRM MCS DEVELOPMNT/MOVEMNT. ACRS S 1/2 OF CWA...EXPECT HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS TDA/THU AND A WARM/MUGGY NIGHT TONIGHT. VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL BE IN PLACE...BUT FOCUS FOR CONVECTION WL BE LIMITED TO WEAK MESOSCALE BOUNDARIES...ASSUMING ONE OR MORE UPSTREAM TSTM COMPLEXES DOES NOT DROP SWARD INTO REGION DURG PERIOD. ONE PSBL FOCUS FOR PM TSTMS ACRS S TDA IS WEAK SFC TROF ACRS S IN/NW KY...FOCUS FOR TSTMS TUE PM...WHICH MAY DRIFT TWD NE AND INTO N CNTL KY/SW OH/SE IN TDA. AG|AIN...EXPECT PATCHY DENSE FOG OVERNIGHT...ESP ACRS S. CVG 91/71/93 222 DAY 91/71/93 322 CMH 92/72/93 322 PRT 91/70/93 222 ROWLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 8:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 64 min |
| Jun 24, 9:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 10:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.