Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 4:28 AM EDT for Ashland 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
- Jun 29, 1998, 4:28 AM EDT (08:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 5:05 AM EDT
- In force
- 37 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 08:30 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 29, 4:30 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Mc Kay, 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 00:00Z, 8.5 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
545 WUUS1 KCLE 290828 RRA SVRCLE OHC005-290905- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 428 AM EDT MON JUN 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 505 AM EDT * AT 428 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ASHLAND OR IN THE VICINITY OF MCKAY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... MCKAY LAKE FORK MCZENA SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 9:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 5:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 5:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 5:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 9:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Marion | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 11:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Wayne | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 48 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.