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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 21, 1998Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 1998, 11:04 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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: Jul 21, 1998, 11:04 PM EDT (03:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 1998, 11:55 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 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
Jul 21, 11:10 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	North Ridgeville, OH

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
Jul 21, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -374 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

294 
WFUS1 KCLE 220303 RRA
TORCLE
OHC093-220355-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1104 PM EDT TUE JUL 21 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1155 PM EDT

* AT 1103 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF ELYRIA OR 1 MILE NORTH OF SOUTH
  AMHERST MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR...
  SOUTH AMHERST
  AMHERST
  ELYRIA AIRPORT
  ELYRIA


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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	64 min
Jul 21, 8:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake	61 min
Jul 21, 8:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	64 min
Jul 21, 8:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	64 min
Jul 21, 8:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	65 min
Jul 21, 8:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	50 min
Jul 21, 9:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	62 min
Jul 21, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	65 min
Jul 21, 9:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	64 min
Jul 21, 9:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Wood	64 min
Jul 21, 9:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky	62 min
Jul 21, 10:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Seneca	62 min
Jul 21, 10:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	65 min
Jul 21, 10:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Lorain	3 hr
Jul 21, 10:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	47 min
Jul 21, 10:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	62 min
Jul 21, 11:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Medina	62 min
Jul 21, 11:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Holmes, Knox, Richland	62 min
Jul 21, 11:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	62 min
Jul 21, 11:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Stark, Summit	60 min
Jul 22, 12:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Trumbull	61 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.