Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1998, 10:36 PM EDT for Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 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 24, 1998, 10:36 PM EDT (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1998, 11:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richland County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 2897 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1238 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
318 WUUS1 KCLE 250237 RRA SVRCLE OHC139-250325- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1036 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RICHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 1125 PM EDT * AT 1034 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTH OF MANSFIELD MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... MANSFIELD EAST MANSFIELD LUCAS 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, 19 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:45 AM EDT, 19 hours 51 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
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 10:31 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-250425- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1031 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR LUCAS...WOOD...HANCOCK.. OTTAWA...SANDUSKY...SENECA...CRAWFORD...AND WYANDOT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO... AT 1030 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN HURON COUNTY NAD WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH. RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED SOMEWHAT. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE REPORTED AS IT MOVED ACROSS HURON COUNTY. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO ASHLAND AND RICHLAND COUNTIES BY 1100 PM. GABRIC SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 10:31 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-250425- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1031 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR LUCAS...WOOD...HANCOCK.. OTTAWA...SANDUSKY...SENECA...CRAWFORD...AND WYANDOT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO... AT 1030 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN HURON COUNTY NAD WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH. RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAD WEAKENED SOMEWHAT. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE REPORTED AS IT MOVED ACROSS HURON COUNTY. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO ASHLAND AND RICHLAND COUNTIES BY 1100 PM. GABRIC SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
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, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.