Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1987
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 1987, 5:52 PM EDT for Crawford County, Erie County, Warren County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1987, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1987, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 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 022114 FFWERI PAC039-022400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA 514 PM EDT THU JUL 2 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...CRAWFORD FREE TEST AREA..ADD THE WORDS TEST IF THIS IS A TEST.. AT 450 PM EDT ERIE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM SOUTH OF MEADVILLE TO WEST OF CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS TO NORTHEAST CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. SKYWARN REPORTERS INDICATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 INCH IN 20 MINUTES IN THE MEADVILLE AREA OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS. OPTIONAL FREE FORMAT ACTION STATEMENT A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR IN PROGRESS.. IF YOU GET ANY ANY INDICATION THAT FLOOD WATER ARE APPROACHING.. MOVE TO HI GHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
1 follow-up statement
000 TTAA00 KERI 022152 RRA FFWERI PAC049-039-123-030000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA 552 PM EDT THU JUL 2 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...EASTERN ERIE...CRAWFORD AND WESTERN WARREN FREE TEST AREA..ADD THE WORDS TEST IF THIS IS A TEST.. AT 540 PM EDT ERIE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTHEAST CRAWFORD COUNTY TO SOUTHEAST ERIE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST INTO THE CORRY AND SPARTANSBURG AREAS. SKYWARN REPORTS INDICATE FLOODING OF FRENCH CREEK WEST OF UNION CITY AND FLOODING IN THE WOODCOCK DAM AREA. THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS. OPTIONAL FREE FORMAT ACTION STATEMENT IF YOU GET ANY INDICATION THAT FLOOD WATERS ARE APPROACHING... MOVE TO 3HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
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.