Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1998, 4:24 PM EDT for Ashland County, Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 min. 2 reports 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 27, 1998, 4:24 PM EDT (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1998, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashland County, OH, Wayne County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 5:09 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Ashland, OH | Large hail (0.75") also fell at Hayesville. |
| Jun 27, 5:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland, OH | Many trees were downed south of Ashland. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 669 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
185 WUUS1 KCLE 272025 RRA SVRCLE OHC005-169-272130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 424 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 423 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF ASHLAND OR 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SULLIVAN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... SULLIVAN POLK CONGRESS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
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 27, 11:23 AM EDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-281200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1123 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER NORTHERN OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WITH A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP. A WEAK STATIONARY FRONT DRAPED ACROSS THE REGION WILL FOCUS THE THUNDERSTORMS ACTIVITY. ANY SEVERE WEATHER WILL MOST LIKELY BE IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WIND OR LARGE HAIL. THE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN. SKYWARN ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BY MID AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. BARJENBRUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 57 min |
| Jun 27, 1:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 2:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Morrow | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 4:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Richland | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 8:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 10:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 4:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Huron | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Ottawa, Wood | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 4:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 4:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 5:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Seneca | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 5:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Crawford | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Stark | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 6:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 6:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 64 min |
Nearby
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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.