Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 408, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1998, 2:45 PM EDT for Morrow County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports 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, 2:45 PM EDT (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1998, 3:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morrow County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 3:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Trees were downed and some buildings sustained minor damage mostly in the southern portion of the county. |
| Aug 25, 3:10 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Mt Gilead, OH | Some 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 369 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -244 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1371 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 251845 RRA SVRCLE OHC117-251950- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 245 PM EDT TUE AUG 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MORROW COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 350 PM EDT * AT 244 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION OR 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARDINGTON MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... CARDINGTON MOUNT GILEAD CHESTERVILLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FRXOM WINDOWS! GABRIC
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 25, 9:34 AM EDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
934 AM EDT TUE AUG 25 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM BUCYRUS OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 CRAWFORD TREE AND ROAD SIGNS DOWN
0800 PM OBERLIN OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 LORAIN POWER LINE DOWN
0820 PM MEDINA OH .75 INCH HAIL
08/24/98 MEDINA
0822 PM CAMDEN OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 LORAIN POWER LINE DOWN
0840 PM OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 STjARK SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN
SOUTHWEST PART OF COUNTY
LAPLANTELocal storm report, Aug 25, 9:34 AM EDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
934 AM EDT TUE AUG 25 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM BUCYRUS OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 CRAWFORD TREE AND ROAD SIGNS DOWN
0800 PM OBERLIN OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 LORAIN POWER LINE DOWN
0820 PM MEDINA OH .75 INCH HAIL
08/24/98 MEDINA
0822 PM CAMDEN OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 LORAIN POWER LINE DOWN
0840 PM OH WIND DAMAGE
08/24/98 STjARK SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN
SOUTHWEST PART OF COUNTY
LAPLANTELocal storm report, Aug 25, 2:26 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
226 PM EDT TUE AUG 25 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1125 AM OH FLOODING
08/25/98 WOOD STREET FLOODING WESTON,
NUMEROUS SMALL STREAMS
FLOODED
1130 AM OH FLOODING
08/25/98 HANCOCK ROADS FLOODED IN NORTHERN
PORTION OF COUNTY
1145 AM ATTICA OH FLOODING
08/25/98 SENECA STREET FLOODING AND
BASEMENT FLODDING
1215 PM OH FLOODING
08/25/98 HURON NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED
THROUGHOUT COUNTY, SOME
BASEMENT FLOODING
0100 PM RITTMAN OH WIND DAMAGE
08/25/98 WAYNE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
0125 PM CLINTON OH 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/25/98 SUMMIT
0133 PM ALLIANCE OH 1 INCH HAIL
08/25/98 STARKThe 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, 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.