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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 9, 1998Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1998, 2:03 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 57 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
Apr 9, 1998, 2:03 PM EDT (18:03 UTC)
Expired
Apr 9, 1998, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 12:00Z on 1998-04-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1998-04-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
357 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

327 
WUUS1 KCLE 091804 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC035-091900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
203 PM EDT THU APR 9 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 202 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
BEREA. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH AND
WILL PASS THROUGH WESTERN CUYAHOGA  FROM HOPKINS
AIRPORT TO WESTLAKE AND LAKEWOOD BY 245 PM.
 
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.
 
LAPLANTE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 8:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull51 min
Apr 8, 8:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage27 min
Apr 8, 9:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford48 min
Apr 8, 10:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland52 min
Apr 8, 11:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina46 min
Apr 9, 9:59 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHuron, Richland3 hr
Apr 9, 11:24 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula2 hr
Apr 9, 1:38 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit52 min
Apr 9, 1:54 PM EDTTornado WarningCLELorain51 min
Apr 9, 2:21 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEPortage54 min
Apr 9, 3:24 PM EDTTornado WarningCLETrumbull51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.