Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1992, 5:29 AM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1992, 5:29 AM EDT (09:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1992, 6:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 1180 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 290933 SVRERI PAC049-291030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA 529 AM EDT WED JUL 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ERIE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 AM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ...ERIE COUNTY AND AJACENT LAKE ERIE WATERS AT 525 THIS MORNING RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WEST OF WATERFORD NEAR I-79 IN ERIE COUNTY...A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR WEST SPRINGFIELD IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE COUNTY. THESE SEVERE STORMS ARE MOVING EASTWARD AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...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.
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 29, 4:51 AM EDT, 38 minutes before
PAZ001-002-291000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 444 AM EDT WED JUL 29 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER LAKE ERIE MOVING TOWARDS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 440 THIS MORNING ERIE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BROKEN LINE OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM OVER THE LAKE NORTH OF FAIRPORT HARBOR OHIO... EASTWARD TO JUST OFF THE WESTERN ERIE COUNTY SHORELINE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EASTWARD AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE AFFECTING ERIE COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT LAKE ERIE WATERS UNTIL 700 AM. SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAUSING PONDING ON ROADWAYS AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. PARRISH
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 5:29 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
OHZALL-301200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR OHIO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 530 AM EDT WED JUL 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND SAYS THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THURNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN OHIO TODAY. THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR SEVERE WEATHER WOULD BE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. KOSARIK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 3:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lawrence, Mercer | 119 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.