Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 454, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 6, 1998, 11:33 PM EST for Sandusky County, Seneca County, Wyandot 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
- Dec 6, 1998, 11:33 PM EST (04:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 7, 1998, 12:05 AM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 11:50 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Tiffin, OH | Large limbs were downed southwest of Tiffin. |
| Dec 6, 11:50 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Upper Sandusky, OH | Large limbs and at least one tree were downed north of Upper Sandusky. |
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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 180 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.
741 WUUS1 KCLE 070437 RRA SVRCLE OHC123-143-147-175-070505- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1133 PM EST SUN DEC 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO SANDUSKY COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO SENECA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO WYANDOT COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO * UNTIL 1205 AM EST * AT 1135 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...FROM TOLEDO TO OTTAWA AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE STORMS ARE PORT CLINTON... FREMONT... TIFFIN... UPPER SANDUSKY... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 11:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 36 min |
| Dec 6, 11:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 36 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
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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.