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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 18, 1992Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1992, 12:46 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jul 18, 1992, 12:46 PM EDT (16:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 1992, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Erie County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1992-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 101 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1992-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
656 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
2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KERI 181649
SVRERI
PAC049-181745-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA
1246 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ERIE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AND AJACENT LAKE ERIE WATERS
 
 
RADAR AT 1245 PM SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF
ALBION IN WESTERN ERIE COUNTY. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20
MILES AN HOUR.
 
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE FAIRVIEW...WATERFORD...EDINBORO...
AND THE CITY OF ERIE.
 
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPHI...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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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.