Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1998, 8:30 AM EDT for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1998, 8:30 AM EDT (12:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1998, 9:20 AM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Geauga County, OH
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 6:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 1313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 211229 RRA SVRCLE OHC055-211320- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 830 AM EDT TUE JUL 21 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GEAUGA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 920 AM EDT * AT 828 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CHARDON MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... BAINBRIDGE AUBURN CENTER WELSHFIELD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! GABRIC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 6:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 35 min |
| Jul 21, 6:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 47 min |
| Jul 21, 6:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky | 48 min |
| Jul 21, 7:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Seneca | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 7:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 48 min |
| Jul 21, 7:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 48 min |
| Jul 21, 7:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 8:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Wyandot | 46 min |
| Jul 21, 8:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 49 min |
| Jul 21, 8:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lake | 48 min |
| Jul 21, 8:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 50 min |
| Jul 21, 9:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Wayne | 49 min |
| Jul 21, 9:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 47 min |
| Jul 21, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 62 min |
| Jul 21, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 65 min |
| Jul 21, 7:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Sandusky | 62 min |
| Jul 21, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 64 min |
| Jul 21, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 63 min |
| Jul 21, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 63 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.