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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 234, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 28, 1998Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1998, 5:38 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 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 28, 1998, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1998, 6:25 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 28, 5:50 PM EDTThunderstorm WindRittman, OHMany large limbs were downed on a house near Rittman.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 28, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 60 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
60 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

302 
WUUS1 KCLE 282137 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC169-282225-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
538 PM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO

* UNTIL 625 PM EDT

* AT 537 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MEDINA OR IN THE VICINITY
  OF RITTMAN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR...
  RITTMAN
  DOYLESTOWN

  THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

&

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 9:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Richland51 min
Jun 27, 9:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow32 min
Jun 27, 9:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox61 min
Jun 27, 9:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow61 min
Jun 27, 10:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEKnox3 hr
Jun 28, 1:25 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEKnox3 hr
Jun 28, 4:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca64 min
Jun 28, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Sandusky61 min
Jun 28, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron65 min
Jun 28, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina65 min
Jun 28, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark63 min
Jun 28, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa65 min
Jun 28, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit48 min
Jun 28, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca50 min
Jun 28, 5:59 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESeneca2 hr
Jun 28, 6:05 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEStark50 min
Jun 28, 6:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie2 hr
Jun 28, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland64 min
Jun 28, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain66 min
Jun 28, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford49 min
Jun 28, 6:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot63 min
Jun 28, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky35 min
Jun 28, 6:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark2 hr
Jun 28, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland62 min
Jun 28, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Medina65 min
Jun 28, 6:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford, Richland2 hr
Jun 28, 7:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford48 min
Jun 28, 7:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes66 min
Jun 28, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow64 min
Jun 28, 7:13 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEAshland, Holmes52 min
Jun 28, 7:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMorrow2 hr
Jun 28, 7:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox63 min
Jun 28, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot62 min
Jun 28, 7:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion66 min
Jun 28, 7:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage64 min
Jun 28, 7:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEKnox2 hr
Jun 28, 7:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford, Wyandot2 hr

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.