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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH

March 9, 1998Medina County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 1998, 6:53 AM EST for Medina County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 67 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
Mar 9, 1998, 6:53 AM EST (11:53 UTC)
Expired
Mar 9, 1998, 8:00 AM EST
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Medina County, OH, Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:53 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 nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 00:00Z on 1998-03-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1998-03-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 405 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
405 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
431 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

390 
WUUS1 KCLE 091157 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC103-153-091300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
653 AM EST MON MAR 9 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...MEDINA COUNTY...SUMMIT COUNTY
 
AT 655 AM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM
SOUTH CENTRAL MEDINA COUNTY INTO NORTHEAST WAYNE COUNTY. THE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THEY WERE HEADING TOWARD
WADSWORTH AND AKRON.
 
TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN IN KILLBUCK TOWNSHIP OF HOLMES COUNTY AROUND
647 AM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DONT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 9, 6:19 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Holmes, Wayne41 min
Mar 9, 6:19 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron41 min
Mar 9, 7:14 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes, Wayne2 hr

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.