Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 1998, 6:19 AM EST for Ashland County, Holmes County, Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 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
- Mar 9, 1998, 6:19 AM EST (11:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1998, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashland County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Wayne County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 6:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Killbuck, OH | Trees and power lines 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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 405 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 431 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
240 WUUS1 KCLE 091122 RRA SVRCLE OHC005-075-077-169-091200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 619 AM EST MON MAR 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...ASHLAND COUNTY...HOLMES COUNTY...HURON COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY AT 620 AM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTH OF NORWALK THROUGH ASHLAND TO WEST OF MILLERSBURG IN HOLMES COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED WIND GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH AND THE RAIN IS HEAVY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. TWO TREES WERE KNOCKED DOWN IN KNOW COUNTY JUST BEFORE 6 AM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DONT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 6:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 41 min |
| Mar 9, 6:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina, Summit | 67 min |
| Mar 9, 7:14 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 2 hr |
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.