Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1998, 9:13 PM EDT for Sandusky 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 24, 1998, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1998, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sandusky County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 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, 9:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Large trees, branches and power lines were downed, some on houses and vehicles. A silo was blown onto a house in Vickery, four semi trucks were blown over at Clyde and three barn roofs were blown off in Townsend Township. Straight line winds downed trees and |
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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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.
749 WFUS1 KCLE 250114 RRA TORCLE OHC143-250200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 913 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SANDUSKY COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT * AT 915 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER OTTAWA COUNTY CONTAINING A TORNADO MOVING SOUTHEAST. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... VICKERY WHITES LANDING 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, 8:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 64 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
Tornado Warnings in Ohio, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes in 1998
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.