Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1998, 3:57 PM EDT for Stark County, Summit County, Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 min. 5 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
- Apr 8, 1998, 3:57 PM EDT (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1998, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Wayne County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 4:05 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Canton, OH | |
| Apr 8, 4:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Norton, OH | |
| Apr 8, 4:30 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Copley, OH | |
| Apr 8, 4:34 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Doylestown, OH | |
| Apr 8, 4:46 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Cuyahoga Falls, OH |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
004 WUUS1 KCLE 081959 RRA SVRCLE OHC151-153-169-082100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 357 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...STARK COUNTY...SUMMIT COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY AT 355 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER WAYNE AND STARK COUNTIES. THE STORMS IN WAYNE COUNTY WILL MOVE INTO SUMMIT COUNTY. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING WIND. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. GABRIC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 41 min |
| Apr 8, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 62 min |
| Apr 8, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 41 min |
| Apr 8, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 59 min |
| Apr 8, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 57 min |
| Apr 8, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 57 min |
| Apr 8, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 68 min |
| Apr 8, 3:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga | 64 min |
| Apr 8, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 67 min |
| Apr 8, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Trumbull | 57 min |
| Apr 8, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 44 min |
| Apr 8, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 37 min |
| Apr 8, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 52 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.