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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 29, 1998Ashland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1998, 3:04 PM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1998, 3:04 PM EDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1998, 3:50 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ashland County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 182 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

366 
WUUS1 KCLE 291905 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC005-291950-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
304 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO

* UNTIL 350 PM EDT

* AT 259 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ASHLAND OR 1 MILE EAST OF
  JEROMESVILLE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR...
  ROWSBURG
  ENGLAND

.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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 4:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood30 min
May 29, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark65 min
May 29, 2:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox46 min
May 29, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning48 min
May 29, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne62 min
May 29, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark66 min
May 29, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.