Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1998, 11:55 AM EST for Ottawa County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 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
- Mar 28, 1998, 11:55 AM EST (16:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1998, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ottawa County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 12:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Elmore, OH | Numerous large limbs 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 nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 889 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 281655 RRA SVRCLE OHC123-281800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1155 AM EST SAT MAR 28 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...OTTAWA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 11:55 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING WESTERN OTTAWA COUNTY. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL REACH PORT CLINTON BY 12:30 PM. WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 60 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS LINE EARLIER TODAY IN NORTHWEST OHIO. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 11:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 55 min |
| Mar 28, 11:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 58 min |
| Mar 28, 12:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 61 min |
| Mar 28, 12:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 62 min |
| Mar 28, 1:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.