Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 445, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 1998, 4:45 PM EST for Geauga County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 80 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
- Nov 10, 1998, 4:45 PM EST (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 1998, 6:05 PM EST
- In force
- 80 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Geauga County, OH, Summit County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 5:15 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Numerous trees and power lines were downed. |
| Nov 10, 5:30 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Akron Arpt, OH | Numerous trees 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 3:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 472 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
174 WUUS1 KCLE 102147 RRA SVRCLE OHC055-085-153-OHZ525-102305- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 445 PM EST TUE NOV 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GEAUGA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO... LAKE COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO... SUMMIT COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO... * UNTIL 605 PM EST. * AT 443 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST NORTH OF CLEVELAND LIGHT TO MEDINA. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NEAR... WILLOUGHBY... NEWBURY... AKRON... BARBETON... DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS $$ RINGO
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 10, 11:40 AM EST, 5 hours 5 minutes before
OHZ003-006>009-017>019-027-028-101735- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1140 AM EST TUE NOV 10 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. LUCAS...WOOD...HANCOCK...OTTAWA...SANDUSKY...SENECA...WYANDOT... CRAWFORD...ERIE AND HURON. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS...LIKELY AFTER 130 PM. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. BARJENBRUCH
Special weather statement, Nov 10, 11:40 AM EST, 5 hours 5 minutes before
OHZ003-006>009-017>019-027-028-036-037-101735- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1140 AM EST TUE NOV 10 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. LUCAS...WOOD...HANCOCK...OTTAWA...SANDUSKY...SENECA...WYANDOT... CRAWFORD...ERIE...HURON...MARION AND MORROW. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO THE AREA DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS...LIKELY AROUND 1 PM. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. BARJENBRUCH CORRECTED TIMING AND COUNTIES INCLUDED
Special weather statement, Nov 10, 12:12 PM EST, 4 hours 33 minutes before
OHZ003-006>009-017>019-027-028-036-037-101735- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1140 AM EST TUE NOV 10 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. LUCAS...WOOD...HANCOCK...OTTAWA...SANDUSKY...SENECA...WYANDOT... CRAWFORD...ERIE...HURON...MARION AND MORROW. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO THE AREA DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS...LIKELY AROUND 1 PM. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. BARJENBRUCH CORRECTED TIMING AND COUNTIES INCLUDED
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 1:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 60 min |
| Nov 10, 1:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 60 min |
| Nov 10, 2:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky | 60 min |
| Nov 10, 2:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca, Wyandot | 62 min |
| Nov 10, 2:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 65 min |
| Nov 10, 3:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 63 min |
| Nov 10, 3:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 61 min |
| Nov 10, 3:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 62 min |
| Nov 10, 3:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 64 min |
| Nov 10, 3:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Lorain | 55 min |
| Nov 10, 4:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 63 min |
| Nov 10, 4:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina | 62 min |
| Nov 10, 4:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 62 min |
| Nov 10, 4:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 80 min |
| Nov 10, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark | 60 min |
| Nov 10, 5:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 78 min |
| Nov 10, 5:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 78 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.