Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1998, 5:24 PM EDT for Knox County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 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, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1998, 6:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Knox County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 6:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Numerous trees were downed. In Bladensburg, a shed was blown on top of a car and the roof was torn off a house. |
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 |
| May 29, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 410 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1085 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
409 WUUS1 KCLE 292125 RRA SVRCLE OHC083-292225- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 524 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KNOX COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 625 PM EDT * AT 521 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOUNT VERNON OR 4 MILES WEST OF BRANDON MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... BRANDON MARTINSBURG .SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS .COMEAUX
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 29, 5:19 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
OHZ006-008>010-017>019-027>032-036>038-047-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 519 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHERN OHIO: ASHLAND CRAWFORD ERIE HANCOCK HURON LORAIN RICHLAND SANDUSKY SENECA STARK WAYNE WOOD WYANDOT THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BOWLING GREEN...FREMONT...SANDUSKY... LORAIN...FINDLAY...MANSFIELD...AND CANTON A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 9 PM. HOLMES KNOX MARION MORROW THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MARION
Special weather statement, May 29, 5:19 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
OHZ006-008>010-017>019-027>032-036>038-047-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 519 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHERN OHIO: ASHLAND CRAWFORD ERIE HANCOCK HURON LORAIN RICHLAND SANDUSKY SENECA STARK WAYNE WOOD WYANDOT THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BOWLING GREEN...FREMONT...SANDUSKY... LORAIN...FINDLAY...MANSFIELD...AND CANTON A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 9 PM. HOLMES KNOX MARION MORROW THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MARION
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, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 48 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 |
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.