Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1998, 7:23 PM EDT for Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 37 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
- Apr 8, 1998, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Medina County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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, 7:35 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Hinckley, 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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.
422 WUUS1 KCLE 082325 RRA SVRCLE OHC103-090000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 723 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...MEDINA COUNTY AT 720 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NORTH OF THE CITY OF MEDINA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DONT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Apr 8, 1:32 PM EDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
OHZ027>032-036>038-047-082300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 132 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH 7PM THIS EVENING... A WARM FRONT WHICH MOVED NORTHWARD ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY THIS MORNING...HAS ALLOWED WARMER AND MORE UNSTABLE AIR TO SPREAD ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONALLY...A COLD FRONT AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ARE APPROACHING FROM THE MIDWEST AND AS THE COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVE EASTWARD AND INTERACT WITH THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS...THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR AND LARGE HAIL. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY EVEN CONTAIN TORNADOES. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE: WYANDOT...MARION...MORROW...CRAWFORD...RICHLAND...ASHLAND...WAYNE ...STARK...KNOX AND HOLMES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL AND CABLE NEWS MEDIA OR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. MILLER
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 1:32 PM EDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
OHZ027>032-036>038-047-082300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 132 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH 7PM THIS EVENING... A WARM FRONT WHICH MOVED NORTHWARD ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY THIS MORNING...HAS ALLOWED WARMER AND MORE UNSTABLE AIR TO SPREAD ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL OHIO THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONALLY...A COLD FRONT AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ARE APPROACHING FROM THE MIDWEST AND AS THE COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVE EASTWARD AND INTERACT WITH THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS...THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR AND LARGE HAIL. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY EVEN CONTAIN TORNADOES. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE: WYANDOT...MARION...MORROW...CRAWFORD...RICHLAND...ASHLAND...WAYNE ...STARK...KNOX AND HOLMES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL AND CABLE NEWS MEDIA OR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. MILLER
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 5:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
OHZ027>032-036>038-047-082330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 551 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998 THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR WYANDOT...MARION...MORROW ...CRAWFORD...RICHLAND...ASHLAND...WAYNE...STARK...KNOX AND HOLMES COUNTIES IN OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAS MOVED NORTHEAST AWAY FROM THE AREA. ADAMS
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 5:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
OHZ027>032-036>038-047-082330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 551 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998 THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR WYANDOT...MARION...MORROW ...CRAWFORD...RICHLAND...ASHLAND...WAYNE...STARK...KNOX AND HOLMES COUNTIES IN OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAS MOVED NORTHEAST AWAY FROM THE AREA. ADAMS
Local storm report, Apr 8, 7:06 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
706 PM EDT WED APR 08 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0140 PM HESSVILLE OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 SANDUSKY
0156 PM FREMONT OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 SANDUSKY
0200 PM FREMONT OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 SANDUSKY
0235 PM SANDUSKY OH 1 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 ERIE
0300 PM SANDUSKY GRIFFING ARPT OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 ERIE
0315 PM LAKEWOOD OH .88 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 CUYAHOGA
0327 PM CLEVELAND OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 CUYAHOGA
0330 PM MACEDONIA OH 1 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 SUMMIT
0335 PM SOLON OH .88 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 CUYAHOGA
0340 PM OH 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 CUYAHOGA HAIL WAS IN CLEVELAND HTS.
0342 PM OH 1 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 CUYAHOGA HAIL WAS IN CLEVELAND HTS.
0352 PM WAYNESBURG OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 STARK
0400 PM OH 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 GEAUGA HAIL WAS IN CHESTER
TOWNSHIP.
0400 PM SHELBY OH .88 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 RICHLAND
0405 PM CANTON OH .88 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 STARK
0410 PM BURTON OH TORNADO
04/08/98 GEAUGA POSSIBLE TORNADO IN BURTON
TOWNSHIP.
0419 PM WADSWORTH OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 MEDINA
0430 PM COPLEY OH 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 SUMMIT
0434 PM DOYLESTOWN OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 WAYNE
0446 PM CUYAHOGA FALLS OH 1 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 SUMMIT
0500 PM BRACEVILLE OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 TRUMBULLLocal storm report, Apr 8, 7:06 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
706 PM EDT WED APR 08 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0140 PM HESSVILLE OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 SANDUSKY
0156 PM FREMONT OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 SANDUSKY
0200 PM FREMONT OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 SANDUSKY
0235 PM SANDUSKY OH 1 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 ERIE
0300 PM SANDUSKY GRIFFING ARPT OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 ERIE
0315 PM LAKEWOOD OH .88 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 CUYAHOGA
0327 PM CLEVELAND OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 CUYAHOGA
0330 PM MACEDONIA OH 1 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 SUMMIT
0335 PM SOLON OH .88 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 CUYAHOGA
0340 PM OH 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 CUYAHOGA HAIL WAS IN CLEVELAND HTS.
0342 PM OH 1 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 CUYAHOGA HAIL WAS IN CLEVELAND HTS.
0352 PM WAYNESBURG OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 STARK
0400 PM OH 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 GEAUGA HAIL WAS IN CHESTER
TOWNSHIP.
0400 PM SHELBY OH .88 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 RICHLAND
0405 PM CANTON OH .88 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 STARK
0410 PM BURTON OH TORNADO
04/08/98 GEAUGA POSSIBLE TORNADO IN BURTON
TOWNSHIP.
0419 PM WADSWORTH OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 MEDINA
0430 PM COPLEY OH 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 SUMMIT
0434 PM DOYLESTOWN OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 WAYNE
0446 PM CUYAHOGA FALLS OH 1 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 SUMMIT
0500 PM BRACEVILLE OH .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98 TRUMBULLThe 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, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit, Wayne | 63 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, 7:38 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.