Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 452, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 6, 1998, 11:09 PM EST for Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 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
- Dec 6, 1998, 11:09 PM EST (04:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 6, 1998, 11:45 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lucas County, OH, Wood County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 11:30 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Walbridge, OH | Large tree limbs were downed west of Walbridge. |
| Dec 6, 11:43 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Toledo, OH | Two tractor trailers were blown over on U.S. Route 23 at U.S. Route 20. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 10:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
626 WUUS1 KCLE 070411 RRA SVRCLE OHC063-095-173-070445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1109 PM EST SUN DEC 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO LUCAS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO * UNTIL 1145 PM EST * AT 1056 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM WAUSEON TO OTTAWA MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO TOLEDO... BOWLING GREEN AND FINDLAY BETWEEN 1130PM AND MIDNIGHT. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS THOMPSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 11:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 36 min |
| Dec 6, 11:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Seneca, Wyandot | 32 min |
| Dec 6, 11:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 32 min |
| Dec 6, 11:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Marion | 49 min |
| Dec 6, 11:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 49 min |
| Dec 7, 12:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow, Richland | 48 min |
| Dec 7, 12:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Lorain | 48 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.