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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 380, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 24, 1998Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 5:44 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 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, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 1998, 6:50 PM EDT
In force
66 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 21:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 24, 6:10 PM EDTHail 1.75Millersburg, OHSome 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 24, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1171 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 208 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Local storm report, Aug 24, 3:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
333 PM EDT MON AUG 24 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0900 AM    HOMERVILLE                OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98   MEDINA                         GARAGE ROOF BLOWN OFF

0300 PM    MT HOPE                   OH   .75 INCH HAIL
08/24/98   HOLMES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 6:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas, Wood63 min
Aug 24, 7:18 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa, Sandusky62 min
Aug 24, 7:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood47 min
Aug 24, 7:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron, Seneca63 min
Aug 24, 7:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Lake47 min
Aug 24, 8:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula63 min
Aug 24, 8:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland66 min
Aug 24, 8:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain, Medina47 min
Aug 24, 8:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Wayne48 min
Aug 24, 9:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot49 min
Aug 24, 9:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Summit65 min
Aug 24, 9:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes, Knox48 min
Aug 24, 2:23 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEWayne47 min
Aug 24, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes65 min
Aug 24, 2:54 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHolmes46 min
Aug 24, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark63 min
Aug 24, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock, Lucas, Wood62 min
Aug 24, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa, Sandusky, Seneca63 min
Aug 24, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot63 min
Aug 24, 7:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Marion63 min
Aug 24, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron64 min
Aug 24, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow, Richland64 min
Aug 24, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain61 min
Aug 24, 7:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Knox62 min
Aug 24, 8:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Erie60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.