Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 41, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 1998, 1:43 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 67 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, 1:43 PM EDT (17:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1998, 2:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 30, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
236 WFUS1 KCLE 301742 RRA TORCLE OHC151-301850- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 143 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STARK COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 250 PM EDT * AT 143 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO EAST OF CANAL FULTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CANTON LOUISVILLE GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 8:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Holmes | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 8:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Holmes | 31 min |
| Jun 29, 10:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Holmes | 7 hr |
| Jun 30, 10:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 64 min |
| Jun 30, 11:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 62 min |
| Jun 30, 11:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Sandusky | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 12:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Lorain | 64 min |
| Jun 30, 12:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 63 min |
| Jun 30, 1:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 63 min |
| Jun 30, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 66 min |
| Jun 30, 1:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 64 min |
| Jun 30, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 64 min |
| Jun 30, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 63 min |
| Jun 30, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 50 min |
| Jun 30, 2:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie | 49 min |
| Jun 30, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 48 min |
| Jun 30, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 64 min |
| Jun 30, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina | 62 min |
| Jun 30, 3:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Lorain | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit, Wayne | 64 min |
| Jun 30, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 66 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.