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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 2, 1998Portage County, Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 4:19 PM EDT for Portage County, Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1998, 5:10 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Portage County, OH, Stark County, OH

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 2, 4:20 PM EDTHail 1.75Suffield, OH
Jun 2, 4:37 PM EDTHail 0.88Louisville, 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, 8.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 158 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 224 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

477 
WFUS1 KCLE 022020 RRA
TORCLE
OHC133-151-022110-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
419 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 510 PM EDT

* AT 418 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AKRON OR IN THE VICINITY OF
  SUFFIELD MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR...
  SUFFIELD
  RANDOLPH
  ATWATER
  ALLIANCE
  DEERFIELD


SEEK SHELTER IN ON THE LOWEST INTERIOR ROOM OF YOUR HOME.

BARJENBRUCH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 3:25 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit30 min
Jun 2, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina48 min
Jun 2, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage50 min
Jun 2, 3:34 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEPortage, Stark36 min
Jun 2, 3:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula47 min
Jun 2, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga, Lake49 min
Jun 2, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull65 min
Jun 2, 3:58 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit67 min
Jun 2, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Stark46 min
Jun 2, 6:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull51 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.