Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1998, 8:42 PM EDT for Ottawa 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 24, 1998, 8:42 PM EDT (00:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1998, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ottawa County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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 24, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado F2 | Port Clinton, OH | A tornado touched down approximately 10 miles west of Port Clinton and just west of the Davis Bessie power plant. Winds were between 113 and 157 miles per hour. Considerable damage occurred, with some barns completely destroyed and an apartment complex heavi |
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 24, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1078 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
546 WFUS1 KCLE 250044 RRA TORCLE OHC123-OHZ521-250130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 842 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OTTAWA COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO * UNTIL 930 PM EDT * AT 840 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF PORT CLINTON OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CATAWBA ISLAND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ALSO...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN NEAR JERUSALEM TOWNSHIP. * THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR... CATAWBA ISLAND GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR & GABRIC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 64 min |
| Jun 24, 9:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 10:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.