Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 3:34 PM EDT for Portage County, Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 min. 2 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
- Jun 2, 1998, 3:34 PM EDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 4:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Portage County, OH, Stark County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:40 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Canton, OH | Large hail also fell at Louisville (0.75") and North Canton (1.00"), |
| Jun 2, 4:20 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Suffield, 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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
180 WFUS1 KCLE 021936 RRA TORCLE OHC133-151-022010- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 334 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PORTAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO STARK COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 410 PM EDT * AT 333 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTH OF RAVENNA OR 7 MILES WEST OF ATWATER MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR... ATWATER LIMAVILLE DEERFIELD .GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR BARJENBRUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 3:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 67 min |
| Jun 2, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 4:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark | 51 min |
| Jun 2, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 51 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.