Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1988, 8:15 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 1988, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1988, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -318 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jul 16, 2:19 PM EDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 325 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 19885 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE NOT DEVELOPED OVER OHIO YET THIS AFTERNOON... BUT THEY SEEM TO BE GETTING CLOSER. NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHERN MICHIGAN WILL BE UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL EIGHT O' CLOCK THIS EVENING. A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND WESTERN NEW YORK UNTIL TEN O' CLOCK. AT 315 THIS AFTERNOON...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN ONTARIO. GOLF BALL-SIZED HAIL AND INTENSE RAINFALL HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THOSE STORMS. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE NORTHWESTERN CORNER OF PENNSYLVANIA. ALL OF THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALL DEVELOPED IN VERY UNSTABLE AIR--JUST LIKE THE HOT...MUGGY AIR OVER OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO OHIO TONIGHT...AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THAT FRONT. THE SEVERE WEATHER WILL PROBABLY HIT NORTHERN OHIO FIRST...AND PEOPLE THERE SHOULD BE PREPARED. BE SURE TO LISTEN FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...AND KEEP AND EYE ON THE SKY. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. PEROUTKA
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 4:29 PM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 55 min |
| Jul 16, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cameron | 30 min |
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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.