Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 3:58 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 67 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
- Jun 2, 1998, 3:58 PM EDT (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 5:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Summit County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Akron, OH | Thunderstorm winds, estimated at up to 80 miles per hour, downed trees. |
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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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.
315 WFUS1 KCLE 022000 TORCLE OHC153-022100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 358 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUMMIT COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 505 PM EDT * AT 353 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR BARBERTON. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR... AKRON BARBERTON TALLMADGE GREEN .THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS MOVE TO THE LOWEST INTERIOR ROOM OF YOUR HOME. 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, 3:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark | 36 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, 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
Tornado Warnings in Ohio, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes 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.