Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1998, 2:52 PM EDT for Mahoning County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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
- May 29, 1998, 2:52 PM EDT (18:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1998, 3:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mahoning County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:59 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Youngstown, OH | Trees and power lines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
270 WUUS1 KCLE 291853 RRA SVRCLE OHC099-291940- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 252 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MAHONING COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 340 PM EDT * AT 251 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF YOUNGSTOWN MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... STRUTHERS CAMPBELL LOWELLVILLE .SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS GABRIC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 4:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 30 min |
| May 29, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 65 min |
| May 29, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 46 min |
| May 29, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 46 min |
| May 29, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 62 min |
| May 29, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 66 min |
| May 29, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.