Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 7:41 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1992, 7:41 PM EDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 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, 11.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 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 102343 SVRERI PAC049-110045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA 741 PM EDT MON AUG 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ERIE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ...ERIE COUNTY AND AJACENT LAKE ERIE WATERS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR FROM ERIE INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST TO THE EAST OF DOWNTOWN ERIE. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE NORTHEAST AND COLT STATION. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, Aug 10, 7:14 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
PAZ001-002-110030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 707 PM EDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ALONG THE PENNSYLVANIA LAKESHORE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 705 PM INDICATED SHOWED A SMALL LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED ALONG THE LAKE ERIE SHORELINE...FROM JUST WEST OF ERIE AND PRESQUE ISLE WEST TO NEAR CONNEAUT OHIO. THESE STORMS HAVE FORMED RAPIDLY WITHIN THE PAST 30 MINUTES...WITH FURTHER FORMATION AND INTENSIFICATION EXPECTED. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS OUTDOORS THROUGHOUT NORTHWESTERN ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES... ALONG WITH BOATERS ON PRESQUE ISLE BAY AND AREA LAKES SHOULD SEEK hSHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 7:18 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
OHZ004-110030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 718 PM EDT MON AUG 10 1992 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ENTERING WESTERN TRUMBULL COUNTY. AT 705 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE CITY OF BRACEVILLE ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF WARREN. THE MOVEMENT OF THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS A VERY SLOW 10 TO 15 MPH TO THE EAST. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS AND LOCALLY PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF WARREN AND CHAMPION BY AROUND 800 PM. THE ATMOSPHERE IS CURRENTLY VERY UNSTABLE AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP RAPIDLY. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO STANDING WATER. IF SEVERE WEATHER OCCURS TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF POSSIBLE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW INFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO PASS IT ONTO THE NATONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. SITES
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.