Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1998, 4:35 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 min. 3 reports 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 31, 1998, 4:35 PM EDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 5:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashtabula County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:40 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Conneaut, OH | |
| May 31, 4:40 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Colebrook, OH | |
| May 31, 4:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Williamsfield, OH |
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 31, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1035 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1038 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
058 WUUS1 KCLE 312036 RRA SVRCLE OHC007-OHZ526-312125- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 435 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ASHTABULA COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT WATERS IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 525 PM EDT * AT 434 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTH OF JEFFERSON OR 5 MILES WEST OF COLEBROOK MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... COLEBROOK CHERRY VALLEY ANDOVER .SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS GABRIC
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
Local storm report, May 31, 12:42 PM EDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
1242 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1239 PM EDINBORO PA 1 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 ERIELocal storm report, May 31, 12:58 PM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
1258 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1255 PM CAMBRIDGE SPGS PA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 CRAWFORDLocal storm report, May 31, 3:58 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
358 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0349 PM FINDLAY OH 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 HANCOCK
0353 PM EUCLID OH .88 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 CUYAHOGA
0355 PM WICKLIFFE OH .88 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 LAKELocal storm report, May 31, 3:58 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
358 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0349 PM FINDLAY OH 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 HANCOCK
0353 PM EUCLID OH .88 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 CUYAHOGA
0355 PM WICKLIFFE OH .88 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 LAKELocal storm report, May 31, 4:16 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
416 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 PM CHESTERLAND OH .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 GEAUGA
0405 PM PAINESVILLE OH 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/31/98 LAKELocal storm report, May 31, 4:16 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
416 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 PM CHESTERLAND OH .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 GEAUGA
0405 PM PAINESVILLE OH 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/31/98 LAKEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 10:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 50 min |
| May 31, 10:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 48 min |
| May 31, 10:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 49 min |
| May 31, 11:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lake | 47 min |
| May 31, 11:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 50 min |
| May 31, 11:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 49 min |
| May 31, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 58 min |
| May 31, 2:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wood | 59 min |
| May 31, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Seneca | 60 min |
| May 31, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 65 min |
| May 31, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake | 63 min |
| May 31, 3:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake | 63 min |
| May 31, 3:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 31 min |
| May 31, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 63 min |
| May 31, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 50 min |
| May 31, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 63 min |
| May 31, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 64 min |
| May 31, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 65 min |
| May 31, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 65 min |
| May 31, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 63 min |
| May 31, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 63 min |
| May 31, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 49 min |
| May 31, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 61 min |
| May 31, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 50 min |
| May 31, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Trumbull | 62 min |
| May 31, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 33 min |
| May 31, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lorain | 60 min |
| May 31, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 49 min |
| May 31, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 62 min |
| May 31, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 61 min |
| May 31, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox, Richland | 62 min |
| May 31, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 65 min |
| May 31, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 35 min |
| May 31, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 46 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.