Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1998, 12:43 PM EST for Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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, 12:43 PM EST (17:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1998, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Seneca County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 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, 1:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Tiffin, OH | Trees 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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.
163 WUUS1 KCLE 281745 RRA SVRCLE OHC147-281845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1243 PM EST SAT MAR 28 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...SENECA COUNTY AT 1240 PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH INTO SENECA COUNTY. SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE FOSTORIA...TIFFIN AND REPUBLIC. HIGH WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH IS THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. LAPLANTE
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, 11:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 65 min |
| Mar 28, 12:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 61 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.