Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 42, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 1998, 2:21 PM EDT for Erie County, Ohio. It was in force for 49 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 30, 1998, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1998, 3:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 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 30, 2:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Sandusky, OH | An estimated wind gust of 63 miles per hour 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 776 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 897 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.3
- Supercell composite
- -2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
532 WFUS1 KCLE 301839 TORCLE OHC043-OHZ522-301910- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 221 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 310 PM EDT * AT 218 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES EAST OF SANDUSKY OR 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF RYE BEACH MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME WATERSPROUTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED OFF THE SHORE OF HURON. * THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR... RYE BEACH HURON VERMILION ...CORRECTED TO CHANGE REFERENCES TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM TO TORNADO...
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, 1:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark | 67 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, 2:27 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 |
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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.