Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 353, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 22, 1998Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1998, 11:48 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 17 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
Jul 22, 1998, 11:48 PM EDT (03:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1998, 12:05 AM EDT
In force
17 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 03:49 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
Jul 22, 11:50 PM EDTThunderstorm WindCountywide, OHTrees were downed.

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, 3.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1998-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1454 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1454 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1098 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 230347 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC075-230405-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1148 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEV

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.

NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 22, 10:00 AM EDT, 13 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 10:00 AM EDT, 13 hours 48 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1000 AM EDT WED JUL 22 1998

OUTFLOW BNDRY APRNT ON KILN...XTNDG FM NR LUK NE TO CHILLICOTHE OH.
AS NOCTURNAL LLJ BREAKS DOWN AND AMS STABILIZES A BIT WTH OUTFLOW
PASSAGE...PCPN BREAKING UP SIGNIFICANTLY. IR IMAGRY SHOWING SIG
WARMING OF TOPS AND DCRS IN COVERAGE AREA...BUT THREAT FOR HVY PCP
OVR FOR NOW TIL AFTN CONVECTION FIRES UP OVR ANY REMAINING BNDRYS.
LOOKS LIKE BEST CHC FOR FIRE UPS WL BE CNTRL AND SRN FA FOLLOWING
BNDRY AND AHD OF SAGGING SFC FNT.

12Z SFC ANLYS HAS SFC FNT SAGGING S A BIT AND NOW APCHNG NRN IN/IL
FM SRN WI/MI. CNVCTN STILL FIRING UP JUST S OF FNT OVR NRN IN...BUT
APRS TO BE HEADING ENE ALNG AND AHD OF FNTL BNDRY.

TEMPS SEEM TO BE A BIT BEHIND WTH REMAINING CLDS/PCPN ACRS FA. EVEN
WTH SLOW START AND XPCTD  CONTINUED CLDS...SHUD SEE UPR 80S FOR
DAY....WTH BEST CHC FOR ARND 90 NR PMH/CVG/CMH.

DIAN-REED

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 10:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow64 min
Jul 22, 11:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark64 min
Jul 23, 12:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning65 min
Jul 23, 12:35 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull60 min
Jul 23, 12:42 AM EDTTornado WarningCLEMahoning48 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.