Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Apr 9, 1998, 2:21 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 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
- Apr 9, 1998, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 1998, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Portage County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Windham, OH | A weak tornado briefly touched down near State Routes 88 and 303. No damage was reported. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
429 WFUS1 KCLE 091823 RRA TORCLE OHC133-091915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 221 PM EDT THU APR 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...PORTAGE COUNTY AT 219 PM SPOTTER AND RADAR REPORTS INDICATED A TORNADO TO THE NORTH OF SHALERSVILLE AND NEAR THE CITY OF RAVENNA. THE TORNADOES WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR FREEDOM MANTUA AND GARRETTSVILLE. 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. REL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 27 min |
| Apr 8, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 48 min |
| Apr 8, 10:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 52 min |
| Apr 8, 11:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 46 min |
| Apr 9, 9:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Huron, Richland | 3 hr |
| Apr 9, 11:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 2 hr |
| Apr 9, 1:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 52 min |
| Apr 9, 1:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lorain | 51 min |
| Apr 9, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 57 min |
| Apr 9, 3:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 51 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.