Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1998, 5:39 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 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 27, 1998, 5:39 PM EDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1998, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lorain County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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, 5:43 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Grafton, OH | Trees 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 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 208 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.
705 WUUS1 KCLE 272141 RRA SVRCLE OHC093-OHZ523-272245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 539 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LORAIN COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 539 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF ELYRIA OR 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF GRAFTON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... GRAFTON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS WSF
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
Local storm report, Jun 27, 5:33 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
533 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0835 AM WOOSTER OH FLOODING
06/27/98 WAYNE STREET FLOODING.
0413 PM SYLVANIA OH .75 INCH HAIL
06/27/98 LUCAS
0425 PM TOLEDO OH .75 INCH HAIL
06/27/98 LUCAS
0425 PM WILLARD OH .75 INCH HAIL
06/27/98 HURON
0426 PM ROSSFORD OH .75 INCH HAIL
06/27/98 WOOD
0428 PM WALBRIDGE OH 1.5 INCH HAIL
06/27/98 WOOD
0443 PM OH 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/27/98 WOOD GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN
MILBURY.
0448 PM WOODVILLE OH .75 INCH HAIL
06/27/98 SANDUSKY
0452 PM FREDERICKTOWN OH 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/27/98 KNOX
0455 PM ELMORE OH 1 INCH HAIL
06/27/98 OTTAWA
0509 PM HAYESVILLE OH .75 INCH HAIL
06/27/98 ASHLAND
0511 PM ASHLAND OH 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/27/98 ASHLAND
0525 PM OH WIND DAMAGE
06/27/98 ASHLAND MANY TREES DOWN SOUTH OF
ASHLAND.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, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Wayne | 66 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, 5:40 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.