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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 375, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 9:01 AM EDT for Wyandot County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 24, 1998, 9:01 AM EDT (13:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1998, 9:50 AM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 503 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1231 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 241301 RRA SVRCLE OHC175-241350- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 901 AM EDT MON AUG 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WYANDOT COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO * UNTIL 950 AM EDT * AT 859 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF UPPER SANDUSKY OR 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEVADA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... NEVADA UPPER SANDUSKY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! GABRIC
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, 4 hours 21 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, 4 hours 21 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, 6:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 63 min |
| 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, 9:15 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
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.