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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 9, 1998Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Apr 9, 1998, 1:54 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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
Apr 9, 1998, 1:54 PM EDT (17:54 UTC)
Expired
Apr 9, 1998, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1998-04-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1998-04-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
519 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

263 
WFUS1 KCLE 091756 RRA
TORCLE
OHC093-091845-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
154 PM EDT THU APR 9 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...LORAIN COUNTY
 
AT 150 PM...A SPOTTER AND RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO
NEAR GRAFTON. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH
AND WILL PASS NEAR ELYRIA AND NORTH RIDGEVILLE BY
220 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
LAPLANTE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 8:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull51 min
Apr 8, 8:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage27 min
Apr 8, 9:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford48 min
Apr 8, 10:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland52 min
Apr 8, 11:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina46 min
Apr 9, 9:59 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHuron, Richland3 hr
Apr 9, 11:24 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula2 hr
Apr 9, 1:38 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit52 min
Apr 9, 2:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga57 min
Apr 9, 2:21 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEPortage54 min
Apr 9, 3:24 PM EDTTornado WarningCLETrumbull51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.