Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 15, 1992, 4:27 PM EDT for Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 15, 1992, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 15, 1992, 5:03 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lawrence County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 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 KYNG 152028 SVRYNG PAC073-152115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 427 PM EDT THU OCT 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN YOUNGSTOWN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ...LAWRENCE COUNTY AT 525 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF NEW CASTLE TO NEAR WAMPUM. MOVEMENT OF THE LINE WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. 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. SITES
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, Oct 15, 2:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
OHZ011-006-152000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MANSFIELD OH 205 PM EDT THU OCT 15 1992 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. RADAR AT 201 PM INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR CLEVELAND TO DAYTON. AREAS OF MODERATE RAIN WERE LOCATED OVER MUCH OF CRAWFORD COUNTY...SOUTHEAST MORROW COUNTY AND WESTERN KNOX COUNTY. THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE $FOR MOST OF THE AFTERNOON. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO PONDING OF WATER ON THE ROADS AND POSSIBLE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. DOXEY
Special weather statement, Oct 15, 3:39 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
OHZ004-PAZ003-152130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 339 PM EDT THU OCT 15 1992 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO WESTERN MAHONING AND COLUMBIANA COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 335 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM BERLIN CENTER IN MAHONING COUNTY SOUTH TO THE COLUMBIANA AND CARROL COUNTY LINE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT SALEM BY 345 PM. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. MITCHELL/KUBINA
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.