Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1998, 7:06 PM EDT for Erie County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1998, 7:06 PM EDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1998, 7:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.
398 WFUS1 KCLE 122308 RRA TORCLE OHC043-122355- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 706 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 755 PM EDT * AT 705 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANDUSKY OR 2 MILES WEST OF PARKTOWN MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR... CASTALIA PARKTOWN BLOOMINGVILLE BOGART MILAN .GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lucas | 47 min |
| 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, 7:09 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 |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.