Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 8:26 AM EDT for Huron County, Lorain 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 26, 1998, 8:26 AM EDT (12:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 9:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Huron County, OH, Lorain County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:28 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 407 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
134 WUUS1 KCLE 261228 RRA SVRCLE OHC077-093-261315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 826 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HURON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 915 AM EDT * AT 825 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF NORWALK OR 6 MILES WEST OF CAMDEN MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... CAMDEN WELLINGTON LAGRANGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS RINGO
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, Jun 26, 5:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-271200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 550 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT AND A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF THE STATE. A WEAK STATIONARY FRONT WILL STAY FOR THE MOST PART JUST NORTH OF THE STATE TODAY. VERY WARM AND HUMID AIR OVER THE REGION AND THE PROXIMITY OF THE FRONT COULD AID IN THE DEVELOPEMENT OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. SKYWARN ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATIOFN. DEM
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 5:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-271200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 550 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT AND A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF THE STATE. A WEAK STATIONARY FRONT WILL STAY FOR THE MOST PART JUST NORTH OF THE STATE TODAY. VERY WARM AND HUMID AIR OVER THE REGION AND THE PROXIMITY OF THE FRONT COULD AID IN THE DEVELOPEMENT OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. SKYWARN ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATIOFN. DEM
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 6:17 AM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-281200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 617 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998 THERE WILL BE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT AND A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE OVER THE NORTHEAST HALF OF THE STATE. A WEAK STATIONARY FRONT WILL EXTEND FROM NORTHWEST OHIO TO EAST CENTRAL OHIO FOR MOST OF THE DAY. VERY WARM AND HUMID AIR OVER THE REGION AND THE PROXIMITY OF THE FRONT...COMBINED WITH WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST...WILL AID IN THE DEVELOPEMENT OF WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. SKYWARN ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. WOODWORTH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 5:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 51 min |
| Jun 26, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 50 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.