Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1986, 7:53 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1986, 7:53 PM EDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1986, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, PA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KERI 022353 SVRERI PAC039-030100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA 753 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...CRAWFORD AT 745 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. THE STOR M WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 5:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
^CLESPSTOL
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
503 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHWEST
OHIO LATE THIS AFTERNOON.
AT 5 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
WILLIAMS..DEFIANCE AND FULTON COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO. HEAVIEST
ACTIVITY WAS OVER SOUTHWEST FULTON COUNTY AND PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED
WITH THIS STORM. MOVEMENT OF THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST
AT 30 MPH.
PEOPLE THROUGHOUT NORTHWEST OHIO SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
KSL
&Special weather statement, Aug 2, 7:19 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 716 PM EDT SAT AUG 02 1986 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ARE HEADED FOR NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... DURING THE PAST HOUR..HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHEAST OHIO. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 30 MILES AND WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS..HAIL..AND STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 7:20 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 720 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986 AT 710 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST NORTH AND EAST OF CLEVELAND TO THE PENNNSYLVANIA BORDER. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE RATHER HEAVY WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS, LOCAL DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL. AT 710 PM HALF INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT CHESTERLAND IN WESTERN GEAUGA COUNTY. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER ~THE EXTREME WEST END OF LAKE ERIE INTO THE ISLANDS AREA. ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. VRCEK
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 7:46 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH
745 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986
AT 740 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM MOVING
INTO NORTHWESTERN TRUMBULL COUNTY NEAR MESOPOTAMIA.
THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS VERY HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..
GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL.
PEOPLE SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER AS THIS THUNDERSTORM
MOVES EAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH.
MILLER
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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.