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Tornado Warning 51, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 25, 1998Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 1998, 3:39 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 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 25, 1998, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 1998, 4:25 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 25, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1153 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

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

980 
WFUS1 KCLE 251939 RRA
TORCLE
OHC075-252025-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
339 PM EDT TUE AUG 25 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 425 PM EDT

* AT 337 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF MILLERSBURG MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR...
  MILLERSBURG
  BERLIN
  TRAIL


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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 8:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina, Wayne	63 min
Aug 24, 8:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	63 min
Aug 24, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	62 min
Aug 24, 8:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark, Summit	59 min
Aug 25, 3:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	63 min
Aug 25, 4:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	62 min
Aug 25, 4:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	66 min
Aug 25, 4:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	66 min
Aug 25, 5:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain, Medina	62 min
Aug 25, 5:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	63 min
Aug 25, 6:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	64 min
Aug 25, 6:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	66 min
Aug 25, 10:24 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Hancock, Wood	116 min
Aug 25, 11:42 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Huron, Seneca	2 hr
Aug 25, 12:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark, Wayne	62 min
Aug 25, 1:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	36 min
Aug 25, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	65 min
Aug 25, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	50 min
Aug 25, 2:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Wayne	2 hr
Aug 25, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	61 min
Aug 25, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	65 min
Aug 25, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	49 min
Aug 25, 3:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	61 min
Aug 25, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	66 min
Aug 25, 3:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Knox	48 min
Aug 25, 3:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Holmes	2 hr
Aug 25, 3:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Stark, Summit	93 min
Aug 25, 4:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland	92 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.