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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 29, 1998Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1998, 4:10 AM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 30 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
May 29, 1998, 4:10 AM EDT (08:10 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1998, 4:40 AM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 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 1998-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1857 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 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
1857 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1175 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 290811
SVRCLE
OHC173-290840-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
410 AM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 440 AM EDT

* AT 407 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN OR 3 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF CYGNET MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR NEW ROCHESTER AND SCOTCH RIDGE.

  THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE HAIL IN EXCESS OF 3/4 INCH AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AN8D LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE
A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

MILLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark65 min
May 29, 2:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox46 min
May 29, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning48 min
May 29, 3:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland46 min
May 29, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne62 min
May 29, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark66 min
May 29, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox61 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.