Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 360, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 6:27 AM EDT for Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 24, 1998, 6:27 AM EDT (10:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1998, 7:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lucas County, OH, Wood County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 7:10 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Waterville, OH | Some crops were damaged. |
| Aug 24, 7:30 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Tontogany, OH | Some crops were damaged. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 5:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 812 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
341 WUUS1 KCLE 241028 RRA SVRCLE LEZ530-OHC095-173-OHZ520-241130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 627 AM EDT MON AUG 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LUCAS COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO * UNTIL 730 AM EDT * AT 625 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM 1 MILE SOUTHEAST OF WAUSEON MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... GRAND RAPIDS WHITEHOUSE WATERVILLE BOWLING GREEN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS KIELTYKA
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
Special weather statement, Aug 24, 4:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-251000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 440 AM EDT MON AUG 24 1998 SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA COULD BECOME SEVERE TODAY AND TONIGHT. NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA WILL BE IN A MOIST AND UNSTABLE SOUTHWEST FLOW THROUGH TONIGHT. WEATHER SYSTEMS IN THIS WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED AT TIMES THROUGH TONIGHT. KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, Aug 24, 4:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-251000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 440 AM EDT MON AUG 24 1998 SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA COULD BECOME SEVERE TODAY AND TONIGHT. NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA WILL BE IN A MOIST AND UNSTABLE SOUTHWEST FLOW THROUGH TONIGHT. WEATHER SYSTEMS IN THIS WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED AT TIMES THROUGH TONIGHT. KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 7:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 7:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 7:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Seneca | 63 min |
| Aug 24, 7:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 8:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 63 min |
| Aug 24, 8:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 66 min |
| Aug 24, 8:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain, Medina | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 8:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Wayne | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 9:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 9:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit | 65 min |
| Aug 24, 9:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Knox | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 2:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wayne | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 65 min |
| Aug 24, 2:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Holmes | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 63 min |
| Aug 24, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 66 min |
| Aug 24, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Lucas, Wood | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca | 63 min |
| Aug 24, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 63 min |
| Aug 24, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Marion | 63 min |
| Aug 24, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 64 min |
| Aug 24, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow, Richland | 64 min |
| Aug 24, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 61 min |
| Aug 24, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Knox | 62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.