Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 29, 1998Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 7:52 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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, 7:52 PM EDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1998, 8:40 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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, 8:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, OH	Numerous trees were downed. Winds were estimated at 80 to 100 miles per hour in the eastern part of the county.

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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 624 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

157 
WUUS1 KCLE 292351 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC075-300040-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
752 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 840 PM EDT

* AT 751 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF MILLERSBURG OR 4 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF HOLMESVILLE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR...
  HOLMESVILLE
  BENTON
  BERLIN

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

Local storm report, Jun 29, 6:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
615 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0400 AM                              OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   WOOD                           WIDESPREAD TREES DOWN AND
                                          SOME ROOFS OFF BARN SOUTH
                                          OF BOWLING GREEN.

1100 AM    WOOSTER                   OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   WAYNE                          SOME TREES AND POWERLINES
                                          DOWN.

0526 PM                              PA   2 INCH HAIL
06/29/98   ERIE                           THE HAIL WAS IN AMITY
                                          TOWNSHIP.
0526 PM    ELGIN                     PA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/29/98   ERIE

Local storm report, Jun 29, 6:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
615 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0400 AM                              OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   WOOD                           WIDESPREAD TREES DOWN AND
                                          SOME ROOFS OFF BARN SOUTH
                                          OF BOWLING GREEN.

1100 AM    WOOSTER                   OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   WAYNE                          SOME TREES AND POWERLINES
                                          DOWN.

0526 PM                              PA   2 INCH HAIL
06/29/98   ERIE                           THE HAIL WAS IN AMITY
                                          TOWNSHIP.
0526 PM    ELGIN                     PA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/29/98   ERIE

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, 4:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	37 min
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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1998 Every 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.