Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 415, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1998, 4:53 AM EDT for Sandusky County, Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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
- Sep 7, 1998, 4:53 AM EDT (08:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1998, 5:55 AM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:53 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 5:35 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Attica, 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 nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
646 WUUS1 KCLE 070854 RRA SVRCLE OHC143-147-070955- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 453 AM EDT MON SEP 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SANDUSKY COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO SENECA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO * UNTIL 555 AM EDT * AT 451 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF TIFFIN OR 6 MILES WEST OF OLD FORT MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... OLD FORT CLYDE FLAT ROCK 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 4:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 64 min |
| Sep 7, 4:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 61 min |
| Sep 7, 5:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 60 min |
| Sep 7, 6:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 63 min |
| Sep 7, 6:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 6:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 7:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 7:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 62 min |
| Sep 7, 7:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 59 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.