Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 396, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1998, 4:33 AM EDT for Sandusky County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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 25, 1998, 4:33 AM EDT (08:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1998, 5:35 AM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sandusky County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 4:50 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Fremont, OH | Many trees were downed. |
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 25, 1:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1317 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 250833 RRA SVRCLE OHC143-250935- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 433 AM EDT TUE AUG 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SANDUSKY COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO * UNTIL 535 AM EDT * AT 432 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES EAST OF BOWLING GREEN OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURGOON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... BURGOON PERU SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! BM
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 25, 12:59 AM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
OHZ003-006>008-017-018-027-028-251000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1259 AM EDT TUE AUG 25 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTHWEST OHIO TIL 7 AM EDT. SOME CITIES IN THIS WATCH ARE FINDLAY...TOLEDO...BOWLING GREEN... PORT CLINTON...FREMONT AND TIFFIN. AT 1 AM DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REACH THE TOLEDO AREA AFTER 4 AM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER. KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 12:59 AM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
OHZ003-006>008-017-018-027-028-251000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1259 AM EDT TUE AUG 25 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTHWEST OHIO TIL 7 AM EDT. SOME CITIES IN THIS WATCH ARE FINDLAY...TOLEDO...BOWLING GREEN... PORT CLINTON...FREMONT AND TIFFIN. AT 1 AM DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REACH THE TOLEDO AREA AFTER 4 AM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER. KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina, Wayne | 63 min |
| Aug 24, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 63 min |
| Aug 24, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit | 59 min |
| Aug 25, 3:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 4:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 66 min |
| Aug 25, 4:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 66 min |
| Aug 25, 5:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain, Medina | 62 min |
| Aug 25, 5:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 6:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 64 min |
| Aug 25, 6:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 66 min |
| Aug 25, 10:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Hancock, Wood | 116 min |
| Aug 25, 11:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Huron, Seneca | 2 hr |
| Aug 25, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Wayne | 62 min |
| Aug 25, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 36 min |
| Aug 25, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 65 min |
| Aug 25, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 50 min |
| Aug 25, 2:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wayne | 2 hr |
| Aug 25, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 61 min |
| Aug 25, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 65 min |
| Aug 25, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 49 min |
| Aug 25, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 61 min |
| Aug 25, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 66 min |
| Aug 25, 3:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Knox | 48 min |
| Aug 25, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Holmes | 46 min |
| Aug 25, 3:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Holmes | 2 hr |
| Aug 25, 3:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit | 93 min |
| Aug 25, 4:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland | 92 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.