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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 31, 1998Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1998, 2:51 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 59 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
May 31, 1998, 2:51 PM EDT (18:51 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1998, 3:50 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, OH

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 31, 3:00 PM EDTThunderstorm WindWeston, OHTrees were downed.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 31, 1:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1998-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1998-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1019 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 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.

366 
WFUS1 KCLE 311853 RRA
TORCLE
OHC173-311950-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
251 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO

* UNTIL 350 PM EDT

* AT 252 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 8 MILES EAST OF NAPOLEON OR 10 MILES WEST OF BOWLING
  GREEN MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR...
  WESTON
  RUDOLPH
  BOWLING GREEN
  PORTAGE


.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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 10:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky50 min
May 31, 10:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa48 min
May 31, 10:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie49 min
May 31, 11:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Lake47 min
May 31, 11:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga50 min
May 31, 11:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula49 min
May 31, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood58 min
May 31, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky, Seneca60 min
May 31, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock65 min
May 31, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga, Lake63 min
May 31, 3:52 PM EDTTornado WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga, Lake63 min
May 31, 3:59 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEAshtabula31 min
May 31, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot63 min
May 31, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca50 min
May 31, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula50 min
May 31, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron63 min
May 31, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox64 min
May 31, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain65 min
May 31, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie65 min
May 31, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga63 min
May 31, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula63 min
May 31, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes49 min
May 31, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga61 min
May 31, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit50 min
May 31, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Trumbull62 min
May 31, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark33 min
May 31, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga, Lorain60 min
May 31, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELake49 min
May 31, 6:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion62 min
May 31, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow61 min
May 31, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox, Richland62 min
May 31, 7:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes65 min
May 31, 7:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion35 min
May 31, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow46 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.