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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 414, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 7, 1998Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1998, 4:29 AM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 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
Sep 7, 1998, 4:29 AM EDT (08:29 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 1998, 5:30 AM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1998-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1419 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1998-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1419 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-179 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

588 
WUUS1 KCLE 070830 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC173-070930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
429 AM EDT MON SEP 7 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO

* UNTIL 530 AM EDT

* AT 427 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE VICINITY OF BOWLING GREEN MOVING EAST AT
  40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR...
  LEMOYNE
  PEMBERVILLE

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

DEB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 4:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas64 min
Sep 7, 4:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky, Seneca62 min
Sep 7, 5:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron60 min
Sep 7, 6:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain63 min
Sep 7, 6:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina65 min
Sep 7, 6:50 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit65 min
Sep 7, 7:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage65 min
Sep 7, 7:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga62 min
Sep 7, 7:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.