Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Sep 30, 1986, 4:32 PM EDT for Crawford County, Erie County, Warren County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 58 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
- Sep 30, 1986, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 1986, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA, Warren County, PA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Crawford, PA |
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. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 302042 TORERI PAC049-039-123-302130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA 432 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...EASTERN ERIE...EASTERN CRAWFORD AND WARREN AT 420 OM EDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND NEAR MILL VILLAGE...ALONG THE ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTY LINE... MOVING EAST AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 65 min |
| Sep 30, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 63 min |
| Sep 30, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 33 min |
| Sep 30, 5:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie, Warren | 31 min |
| Sep 30, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lawrence | 58 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.