Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 376, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 9:15 AM EDT for Stark County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 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, 9:15 AM EDT (13:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1998, 10:20 AM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:19 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.
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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 812 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 241314 RRA SVRCLE OHC151-153-241420- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 915 AM EDT MON AUG 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STARK COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO SUMMIT COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 1020 AM EDT * AT 914 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AKRON OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PORTAGE LAKE STATE PARK MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... PORTAGE LAKE STATE PARK GREEN MANCHESTER GREENTOWN NORTH CANTON HARTVILLE CANTON LOUISVILLE ALLIANCE 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 35 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 35 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, 9:06 AM EDT, 9 minutes before
PAZ001>003-520-241405- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 906 AM EDT MON AUG 24 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 2 PM EDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES UNTIL 940 AM EDT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM...HOWEVER THE MAIN THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS WITH THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS MOVING THROUGH THE AREA THIS MORNING. SHORTLY AFTER 9 AM THAT AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM AROUND ERIE SOUTH TO MEADVILLE.
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, 9:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.