Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 420, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1998, 6:40 AM EDT for Medina 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
- Sep 7, 1998, 6:40 AM EDT (10:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1998, 7:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Medina County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:43 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, 6:48 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Medina, OH | Large hail fell east of the city of Medina. Some crops were damaged. |
| Sep 7, 7:00 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Hinckley, OH | Trees and branches were downed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 5:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 511 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2224 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
262 WUUS1 KCLE 071041 RRA SVRCLE OHC103-071145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 640 AM EDT MON SEP 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MEDINA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 745 AM EDT * AT 639 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF MEDINA OR 5 MILES WEST OF WADSWORTH MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... WADSWORTH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
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, 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, 6:50 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.