Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 242, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1998, 6:28 PM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 min. 3 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 28, 1998, 6:28 PM EDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1998, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashland County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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 28, 6:36 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Paradise Hill, OH | |
| Jun 28, 7:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 69 | Countywide, OH | Many trees and power lines were downed, with some trees downed on houses. Winds were estimated as gusting to 80 miles per hour. At Pleasant Valley Campground in Loudonville, trees were downed and campers were evacuated. |
| Jun 28, 7:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Loudonville, OH | Trees and some power lines were downed, possibly by downburst winds. |
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 28, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
652 WUUS1 KCLE 282227 RRA SVRCLE OHC005-282330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 628 PM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 626 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF MANSFIELD OR 3 MILES WEST OF PARADISE HILL MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... PARADISE HILL ASHLAND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. 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 28, 5:53 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
LEZ530-OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-520>526- PAZ001>003-520-282350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 553 PM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT TIL 11 PM FOR ALL OF NORTHERN OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO FOR EARLY TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO THIS EVENING. SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE OCCURRED WITH LARGE HAIL. QUARTER SIZE HAIL OCCURRED IN GILFORD TOWNSHIP OF MEDINA COUNTY AT 533 PM. THE WINDS GUSTED TO 71 MPH NEAR TIFFIN AT 528 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN HAVE GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH AND HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER. ALSO HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR AND THAT COULD CAUSE SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADS AND STREAMS. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF NEEDED. KIELTYKA KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 5:53 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
LEZ530-OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-520>526- PAZ001>003-520-282350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 553 PM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT TIL 11 PM FOR ALL OF NORTHERN OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO FOR EARLY TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO THIS EVENING. SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE OCCURRED WITH LARGE HAIL. QUARTER SIZE HAIL OCCURRED IN GILFORD TOWNSHIP OF MEDINA COUNTY AT 533 PM. THE WINDS GUSTED TO 71 MPH NEAR TIFFIN AT 528 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN HAVE GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH AND HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER. ALSO HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR AND THAT COULD CAUSE SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADS AND STREAMS. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF NEEDED. KIELTYKA KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Richland | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 32 min |
| Jun 27, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 9:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 10:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 1:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Sandusky | 61 min |
| Jun 28, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 63 min |
| Jun 28, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 5:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Seneca | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 6:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 6:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 49 min |
| Jun 28, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 63 min |
| Jun 28, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 35 min |
| Jun 28, 6:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 6:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford, Richland | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 7:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland, Holmes | 52 min |
| Jun 28, 7:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Morrow | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 63 min |
| Jun 28, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 7:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 7:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford, Wyandot | 2 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.