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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 30, 1998Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 1998, 1:21 PM EDT for Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 64 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
Jun 30, 1998, 1:21 PM EDT (17:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 1998, 2:25 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 222 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 249 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 301720 RRA
TORCLE
OHC153-301825-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
121 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SUMMIT COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO

* UNTIL 225 PM EDT

* AT 120 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO ALONG THE SUMMIT COUNTY BORDER EAST OF WADSWORTH. THE STORM
  WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BARBERTON
  PORTAGE LAKE



GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

MILLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 8:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes2 hr
Jun 29, 8:34 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHolmes31 min
Jun 29, 10:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes7 hr
Jun 30, 10:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood64 min
Jun 30, 11:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky62 min
Jun 30, 11:58 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie, Sandusky3 hr
Jun 30, 12:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron, Lorain64 min
Jun 30, 12:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina63 min
Jun 30, 1:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne63 min
Jun 30, 1:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit66 min
Jun 30, 1:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark64 min
Jun 30, 1:43 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEStark67 min
Jun 30, 1:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning63 min
Jun 30, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne50 min
Jun 30, 2:21 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEErie49 min
Jun 30, 2:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa48 min
Jun 30, 2:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain64 min
Jun 30, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Medina62 min
Jun 30, 3:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie, Huron, Lorain3 hr
Jun 30, 3:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit, Wayne64 min
Jun 30, 3:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark66 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.