Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 378, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 2:40 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 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
- Aug 24, 1998, 2:40 PM EDT (18:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1998, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 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 18:40 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 3:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Mt Hope, 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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 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.
- 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 241839 RRA SVRCLE OHC075-241945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 240 PM EDT MON AUG 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HOLMES COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * AT 241 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF WOOSTER OR 4 MILES NORTH OF HOLMESVILLE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... HOLMESVILLE BERLIN FARMERSTOWN WINESBURG SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! LAPLANTE
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, 9:06 AM EDT, 5 hours 34 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.
Local storm report, Aug 24, 11:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
1120 AM EDT MON AUG 24 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0710 AM WATERVILLE OH .75 INCH HAIL
08/24/98 LUCAS
0730 AM TONTOGANY OH .75 INCH HAIL
08/24/98 WOOD
0805 AM OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 LAKE NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN THROUGHOUT
COUNTY
0825 AM OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 ASHTABULA NUMEROUS LARGE TREE LIMBS
DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY
0830 AM OH .75 INCH HAIL
08/24/98 HURON REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL
THROUGHOUT COUNTY
0830 AM FAIRPORT HARBOR OH 63 MPH TSTM GUST
08/24/98 LAKE
0831 AM OH .75 INCH HAIL
08/24/98 SENECA SHERIFF REPORTED LARGE
HAIL SOME PARTS OF COUNTY
0850 AM CONNEAUTVILLE PA WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 CRAWFORD TREES DOWN
0855 AM LODI OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 MEDINA TREES DOWN
0900 AM PA WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 CRAWFORD NUMEROUS TREES DONW
THROUGHOUT COUNTY
0900 AM OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 RICHLAND NUMEROUS LARGE TREE LIMBS
DOWN IN COUNTY
0910 AM EDINBORO PA 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/24/98 ERIE
0915 AM OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 WAYNE COUPLE TREES DOWN NORTHERN
PORTION OF COUNTY
LGLocal storm report, Aug 24, 11:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
1120 AM EDT MON AUG 24 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0710 AM WATERVILLE OH .75 INCH HAIL
08/24/98 LUCAS
0730 AM TONTOGANY OH .75 INCH HAIL
08/24/98 WOOD
0805 AM OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 LAKE NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN THROUGHOUT
COUNTY
0825 AM OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 ASHTABULA NUMEROUS LARGE TREE LIMBS
DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY
0830 AM OH .75 INCH HAIL
08/24/98 HURON REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL
THROUGHOUT COUNTY
0830 AM FAIRPORT HARBOR OH 63 MPH TSTM GUST
08/24/98 LAKE
0831 AM OH .75 INCH HAIL
08/24/98 SENECA SHERIFF REPORTED LARGE
HAIL SOME PARTS OF COUNTY
0850 AM CONNEAUTVILLE PA WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 CRAWFORD TREES DOWN
0855 AM LODI OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 MEDINA TREES DOWN
0900 AM PA WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 CRAWFORD NUMEROUS TREES DONW
THROUGHOUT COUNTY
0900 AM OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 RICHLAND NUMEROUS LARGE TREE LIMBS
DOWN IN COUNTY
0910 AM EDINBORO PA 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/24/98 ERIE
0915 AM OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 WAYNE COUPLE TREES DOWN NORTHERN
PORTION OF COUNTY
LGThe 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, 9:15 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, 2:54 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.