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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 3, 1998Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1998, 6:23 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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
May 3, 1998, 6:23 PM EDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 1998, 7:25 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1998-05-03Temperature 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1998-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-12 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.

692 
WUUS1 KCLE 032224 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC173-032325-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
623 PM EDT SUN MAY 3 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO

* UNTIL 725 PM EDT

* AT 621 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF BOWLING GREEN OR 7 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF CUSTAR MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME COMMUNITIES OR LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... MILTON
  CENTER AND CUSTAR.

.SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE
A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

BARJENBRUCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 4:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWood2 hr
May 3, 4:59 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHuron, Seneca3 hr
May 3, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox66 min
May 3, 7:14 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.