Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 425, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 20, 1998, 5:38 PM EDT for Hancock County, Ohio. It was in force for 32 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 20, 1998, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 1998, 6:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hancock County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 5:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Van Buren, OH | Large branches and at least one tree were downed. A corn field was blown down and awnings were damaged at a campground.. |
| Sep 20, 5:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Van Buren, OH |
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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1350 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
633 WUUS1 KCLE 202139 RRA SVRCLE OHC063-202210- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 538 PM EDT SUN SEP 20 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO * UNTIL 610 PM EDT * AT 537 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF FINDLAY OR 2 MILES WEST OF MORTIMER MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... VAN BUREN ARCADIA WEST INDEPENDENCE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
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.
NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 20, 3:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 3:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
TOL WB 063/074 049/062 043 09552 CLE WC 065/076 055/064 046 09463 CAK WC 064/077 053/064 043 09363 YNG WC 063/077 052/064 042 09363 ERI WC 066/077 054/063 046 09364 CVG TB 067/080 058/076 048 25473 DAY TvB 066/080 055/072 046 25473 CMH TB 067/081 055/071 045 25473 WCR
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.