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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 26, 1998Ashland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 5:42 AM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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 26, 1998, 5:42 AM EDT (09:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1998, 6:30 AM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ashland County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1998-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1817 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1998-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1817 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1380 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
5.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

260 
WUUS1 KCLE 260944 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC005-261030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
542 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO

* UNTIL 630 AM EDT

* AT 540 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF ASHLAND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR...
  ASHLAND
  HAYESVILLE
  JEROMESVILLE

DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

VRCEK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 8:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron, Lorain49 min
Jun 26, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne51 min
Jun 26, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland36 min
Jun 26, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark62 min
Jun 26, 6:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow50 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.