Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 457, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 6, 1998, 11:56 PM EST for Erie County, Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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, 11:56 PM EST (04:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 7, 1998, 12:45 AM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Erie County, OH, Huron County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 12:35 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 10:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 172 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.
784 WUUS1 KCLE 070458 SVRCLE OHC033-043-077-101-070545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1156 PM EST SUN DEC 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ERIE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO HURON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO MARION COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 1245 AM EST THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. TWO TRACTOR TRAILERS WERE BLOWN OVER IN TOLEDO AREA AROUND 1145 PM. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. TWO TRACTOR TRAILERS WERE BLOWN OVER IN TOLEDO AREA AROUND 1145 PM. 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 | 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 | 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 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.