Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 6:50 PM EDT for Morrow County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 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 26, 1998, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 7:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morrow County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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 26, 7:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mt Gilead, OH | A barn was blown down on Route 61 north of Mt. Gilead. |
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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 2677 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
687 WUUS1 KCLE 262252 RRA SVRCLE OHC117-262340- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 650 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MORROW COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 740 PM EDT * AT 648 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF MOUNT GILEAD OR 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF IBERIA MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... IBERIA SHAUCK SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS RINGO
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, 8:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Lorain | 49 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 |
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.