Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1998, 5:23 PM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 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 12, 1998, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1998, 6:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lucas County, OH
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:50 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Waterville, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
617 WFUS1 KCLE 122125 RRA TORCLE LEZ530-OHC095-OHZ520-122210- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 523 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LUCAS COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO * UNTIL 610 PM EDT * AT 522 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WAUSEON MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR... WHITEHOUSE .GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR VRCEK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 6:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wood | 119 min |
| Jun 12, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Seneca | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 7:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 7:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Seneca | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 64 min |
| Jun 12, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 79 min |
| Jun 12, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 7:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lorain | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 95 min |
| Jun 12, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 2 hr |
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.