Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1991, 5:28 PM EDT for Warren County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 62 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 25, 1991, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1991, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 6:00 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Warren, 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 633 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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, May 25, 2:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
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STORM REPORT CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA
404 PM EDT SAT MAY 25 1991
STORM REPORT FOR FRIDAY MAY 24 1991
TIME EDT EVENT
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1550 EDT....NUMEROUS TREES/LIMBS DOWN 5 MILES NW OF CAMBRIDGE
SPRINGS IN CRAWFORD COUNTY...REPORTED BY FIRE
CONTROL...HIGH WIND GUSTS.
1615 EDT....NUMEROUS TREES/LIMBS DOWNED...POWER LINE POLES
SNAaPPED/LINES DOWN/POWER OUTAGES AT WATERFORD IN SOUTHERN
ERIE COUNTY...REPORTED BY WJET TV-24 ON LOCAL NEWS.
PARRISHSpecial weather statement, May 25, 4:53 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
OHZALL-252300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND AFTERNOON OHIO WEATHER STORY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 455 PM EDT SAT MAY 25 1991 OHIO IS APT TO GET A LOT OF THUNDERY WEATHER OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE A GOOD BET IN OHIO BOTH TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. FOR SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BECOME LESS LIKELY... BUT SOME COULD STILL OCCUR. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT WILL AFFECT NORTHWEST OHIO TONIGHT COULD BRING DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL... AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT THERE UNTIL 10 PM. MAJOR CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE BOWLING GREEN... DEFIANCE... FINDLAY... AND TOLEDO. BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAINS FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ANYWHERE IN THE STATE TONIGHT. ALONG WITH A PERSISTENT THREAT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... OHIO WILL SEE CONTINUED WARM HUMID WEATHER FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. LOWS BOTH TONIGHT AND SUNDAY NIGHT ARE FORECAST TO BE FROM 65 TO 70. HIGHS BOTH SUNDAY AND MEMORIAL DAY ARE PREDICTED TO BE NEAR 85. NORMALLY AT THIS TIME OF YEAR LOWS ARE FROM THE UPPER 40S TO THE MID 50S AND HIGHS ARE IN THE MID 70S. TODAY IN OHIO BROUGHT VARIABLE CLOUDINESS WITH DRY WEATHER TO THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES... AND VARIABLE CLOUDINESS WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE NORTH. MOST PLACES SAW AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES IN THE MID OR UPPER 80S... BUT THE MERCURY CLIMBED INTO THE 90S IN THE COLUMBUS AREA. THE AFTERNOON WEATHER MAP SHOWED A COLD FRONT JUST NORTH OF LAKE ERIE AND A SYSTEM OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE UNITED STATES. THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO TURN INTO A WARM FRONT FROM TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW... AND MOVE TO THE EAST COAST MONDAY. THE HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM IS UNLIKELY TO CHANGE MUCH OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. KWIATKOWSKI
Special weather statement, May 25, 5:08 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-252230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 508 PM EDT SAT MAY 25 1991 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WILLIAMS... DEFIANCE... FULTON... HENRY... PAULDING... LUCAS... AND WOOD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 1000 PM EDT. AT 500 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM NEAR WAUSEON IN FULTON COUNTY SOUTH THROUGH HENRY COUNTY AND INTO NORTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORMS SHOULD BE INTO WEST TOLEDO AROUND 530 PM. SOME THUNDERSTORMS THAT WILL AFFECT NORTHWEST OHIO THIS EVENING COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL. REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDUITIONS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES... SEEK SHELTER. MURPHY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky | 3 hr |
| May 25, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 3 hr |
| May 25, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 59 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.