Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 28, 1998Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1998, 8:01 PM EDT for Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 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, 8:01 PM EDT (00:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1998, 9:05 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 28, 8:03 PM EDTHail 0.88Cortland, OHLarge hail (0.88") was also reported near Mosquito Lake.

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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2035 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2035 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
231 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.6

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The text

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

078 
WUUS1 KCLE 290000 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC155-290105-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TRUMBULL COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO

* UNTIL 905 PM EDT

* AT 800 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF WARREN OR 3 MILES WEST OF
  CORTLAND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR...
  CORTLAND
  JOHNSTON
  KINSMAN

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, 2 hours 8 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, 2 hours 8 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 9:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEKnox, Morrow2 hr
Jun 29, 4:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland37 min
Jun 29, 4:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne65 min
Jun 29, 5:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca65 min
Jun 29, 5:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark63 min
Jun 29, 5:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron65 min
Jun 29, 9:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Marion63 min
Jun 29, 11:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark32 min
Jun 29, 7:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Wayne63 min
Jun 29, 7:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes48 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.