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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 404, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 25, 1998Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1998, 1:09 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 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, 1:09 PM EDT (17:09 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 1998, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:10 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 25, 1:10 PM EDTHail 1.75Clinton, 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 nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 1998-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1153 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 1998-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 208 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1153 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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

284 
WUUS1 KCLE 251709 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC153-251745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
109 PM EDT TUE AUG 25 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO

* UNTIL 145 PM EDT

* AT 116 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING NEAR MANCHESTER MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  GREEN
  AKRON-CANTON AIRPORT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE
A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

GABRIC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 8:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Wayne63 min
Aug 24, 8:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes63 min
Aug 24, 8:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga62 min
Aug 24, 8:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Summit59 min
Aug 25, 3:42 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas, Wood63 min
Aug 25, 4:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky62 min
Aug 25, 4:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron66 min
Aug 25, 4:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca66 min
Aug 25, 5:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain, Medina62 min
Aug 25, 5:57 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit63 min
Aug 25, 6:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne64 min
Aug 25, 6:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark66 min
Aug 25, 10:24 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHancock, Wood116 min
Aug 25, 11:42 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHuron, Seneca2 hr
Aug 25, 12:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Wayne62 min
Aug 25, 2:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit65 min
Aug 25, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion50 min
Aug 25, 2:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWayne2 hr
Aug 25, 2:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland61 min
Aug 25, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow65 min
Aug 25, 3:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland49 min
Aug 25, 3:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox61 min
Aug 25, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes66 min
Aug 25, 3:32 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEKnox48 min
Aug 25, 3:39 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHolmes46 min
Aug 25, 3:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes2 hr
Aug 25, 3:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark, Summit93 min
Aug 25, 4:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland92 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.