Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 402, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1998, 6:19 AM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 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 25, 1998, 6:19 AM EDT (10:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1998, 7:25 AM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark County, OH
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, 5:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
286 WUUS1 KCLE 251019 RRA SVRCLE OHC151-251125- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 619 AM EDT TUE AUG 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STARK COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 725 AM EDT * AT 618 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANTON OR 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF CANAL FULTON MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... CANAL FULTON MASSILLION NORTH CANTON CANTON LOUISVILLE EAST CANTON MINERVA 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, 5 hours 20 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, 5 hours 20 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, 4:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 62 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, 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
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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.