Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Apr 9, 1998, 1:38 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 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
- Apr 9, 1998, 1:38 PM EDT (17:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 1998, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Summit County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 1:45 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Copley, OH | A weak tornado touched down briefly near Copley causing some minor roof damage. |
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, 5.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
242 WFUS1 KCLE 091745 RRA TORCLE OHC153-091830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 138 PM EDT THU APR 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...SUMMIT COUNTY AT 135 PM RADAR AND A GROUND SPOTTER INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR FAIRLAWN. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH NORTH EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR PENINSULA BOSTON HEIGHTS AND TWINSBURG BY 215 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. LAPLANTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 27 min |
| Apr 8, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 48 min |
| Apr 8, 10:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 52 min |
| Apr 8, 11:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 46 min |
| Apr 9, 9:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Huron, Richland | 3 hr |
| Apr 9, 11:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 2 hr |
| Apr 9, 1:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lorain | 51 min |
| Apr 9, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 57 min |
| Apr 9, 2:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage | 54 min |
| Apr 9, 3:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 51 min |
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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.