Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1992, 2:46 AM EDT for Venango County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 1992, 2:46 AM EDT (06:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1992, 3:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Venango County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 2971 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 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 240646
SVRERI
PAC121-240745-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA
246 AM EDT FRI APR 24 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF PENNSYLVANIA
VENANGO
AT 240 AM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
WESTERN VENANGO COUNTY MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR...
HEADING TOWARD FRANKLIN, PA.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID LOW WATER CROSSI&NGS.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.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, Apr 24, 12:12 AM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
PAZ001-002-240600 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 1206 AM EDT FRI APR 24 1992 ...ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE HEADED FOR THE PENNSYLVANIA LAKESHORE... AT 1200 AM ERIE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR LONG POINT ONTARIO...SOUTH ACROSS LAKE ERIE TO CONNEAUT OHIO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE PENNSYLVANIAWATERS OF LAKE ERIE ANsD PORTIONS OF ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES BETWEEN 1215 AND 1 AM THIS MORNING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 50 MILES AN HOUR... HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL. SANDSTROM
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 12:16 AM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
OHZ001>004-011-240700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO 1215 AM EDT FRI APR 24 1992 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE AFFECTING NORTHEAST OHIO EARLY THIS MORNING. AT 1210 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED OVER NORTHEAST OHIO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST WEST OF CLEVELAND. INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT CLOSE TO 45 MPH. HOWEVER NEW STORMS KEPT FORMING...SO THUNDERY WEATHER IS LIKELY TO BE AROUND FOR MUCH OF THE EARLY MORNING. THE STORMS AFFECTING NORTHEAST OHIO HAVE BEEN CAUSING BRILLIANT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. THEY ARE ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. THE GREATEST THREAT OF GUSTY WINDS WILL BE NEAR THE LAKE ERIE SHORELINE. PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST OHIO SHOULD BE READY FOR A VARIETY OF WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS MORNING. < KWIATKOWSKI
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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.