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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 27, 1998Ashland County, Richland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1998, 4:35 PM EDT for Ashland County, Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports 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 27, 1998, 4:35 PM EDT (20:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1998, 5:40 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Ashland County, OH, Richland County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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 27, 5:09 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Ashland, OH	Large hail (0.75") also fell at Hayesville.
Jun 27, 5:25 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland, OH	Many trees were downed south of Ashland.

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 27, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 194 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2641 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 6.6

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The text

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

257 
WFUS1 KCLE 272037 RRA
TORCLE
OHC005-139-272140-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
435 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
  RICHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO

* UNTIL 540 PM EDT

* AT 434 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF ASHLAND OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  PARADISE HILL MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR...
  PARADISE HILL
  ASHLAND


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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 1:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox, Morrow	57 min
Jun 27, 1:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	63 min
Jun 27, 2:08 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Knox	3 hr
Jun 27, 2:24 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Morrow	3 hr
Jun 27, 2:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	63 min
Jun 27, 4:31 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Knox, Morrow	3 hr
Jun 27, 4:44 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Richland	3 hr
Jun 27, 8:27 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Stark, Wayne	3 hr
Jun 27, 10:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	46 min
Jun 27, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	60 min
Jun 27, 4:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Huron	61 min
Jun 27, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Ottawa, Wood	61 min
Jun 27, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Wayne	66 min
Jun 27, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	65 min
Jun 27, 4:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Knox, Morrow	2 hr
Jun 27, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	66 min
Jun 27, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wood	64 min
Jun 27, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	66 min
Jun 27, 5:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Seneca	63 min
Jun 27, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	63 min
Jun 27, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	65 min
Jun 27, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	66 min
Jun 27, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	65 min
Jun 27, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	65 min
Jun 27, 5:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Crawford	63 min
Jun 27, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	66 min
Jun 27, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	62 min
Jun 27, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Stark	63 min
Jun 27, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	65 min
Jun 27, 6:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	65 min
Jun 27, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	63 min
Jun 27, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion, Morrow	65 min
Jun 27, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	66 min
Jun 27, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	64 min
Jun 27, 6:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Knox, Morrow	2 hr
Jun 27, 6:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Knox, Morrow	61 min
Jun 27, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	64 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.