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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 24, 1998Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 24, 1998, 2:23 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 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
Aug 24, 1998, 2:23 PM EDT (18:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 1998, 3:10 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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 1998-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1171 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 1998-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 208 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1171 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
812 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
7.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 241823 RRA
TORCLE
OHC169-241910-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
223 PM EDT MON AUG 24 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO

* UNTIL 310 PM EDT

* AT 222 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF WOOSTER MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR...
  APPLE CREEK
  FREDERICKSBURG
  WOOSTER
  SHREVE

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


GABRIC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 6:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas, Wood63 min
Aug 24, 7:18 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa, Sandusky62 min
Aug 24, 7:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood47 min
Aug 24, 7:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron, Seneca63 min
Aug 24, 7:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Lake47 min
Aug 24, 8:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula63 min
Aug 24, 8:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland66 min
Aug 24, 8:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain, Medina47 min
Aug 24, 8:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Wayne48 min
Aug 24, 9:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot49 min
Aug 24, 9:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Summit65 min
Aug 24, 9:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes, Knox48 min
Aug 24, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes65 min
Aug 24, 2:54 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHolmes46 min
Aug 24, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark63 min
Aug 24, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes66 min
Aug 24, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock, Lucas, Wood62 min
Aug 24, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa, Sandusky, Seneca63 min
Aug 24, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot63 min
Aug 24, 7:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Marion63 min
Aug 24, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron64 min
Aug 24, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow, Richland64 min
Aug 24, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain61 min
Aug 24, 7:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Knox62 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.