Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 416, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1998, 5:40 AM EDT for Erie County, Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 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, 5:40 AM EDT (09:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1998, 6:40 AM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Erie County, OH, Huron County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 5:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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.
955 WUUS1 KCLE 070941 RRA SVRCLE OHC043-077-OHZ522-071040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 540 AM EDT MON SEP 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO HURON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 640 AM EDT * AT 537 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORWALK OR 7 MILES WEST OF DELPHI MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... DELPHI GREENWICH NEW LONDON CASTALIA PARKERTOWN KIMBALL 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, 4:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Seneca | 62 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
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.