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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1998, 9:02 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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, 9:02 PM EDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1998, 9:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 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 01:02 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, 9:12 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Portage Lakes, 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, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 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
- 1057 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1287 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
220 WFUS1 KCLE 130105 RRA TORCLE OHC153-130150- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 902 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 950 PM EDT * AT 901 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO BETWEEN BARBERTON AND PORTAGE LAKES.. THIS TORNADO WAS EAST AT MILES PER HOUR. * .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, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 96 min |
| Jun 12, 8:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 93 min |
| Jun 12, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Summit | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 92 min |
| Jun 12, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 95 min |
| Jun 12, 8:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 93 min |
| Jun 12, 8:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 93 min |
| Jun 12, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 10:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina, Wayne | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 11:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 11:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 11:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 12:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 62 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.