Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 1992, 6:02 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 1992, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1992, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 6:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Erie, PA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 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 112205 SVRERI PAC049-112300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA 602 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ERIE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ...ERIE COUNTY AND AJACENT LAKE ERIE WATERS AT 600 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM NEAR LONG POINT CANADA TO FAIRPORT OHIO. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL ENTER ERIE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA BY 630 PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. 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 T.HE 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, Apr 11, 5:02 PM EDT, 1 hour before
OHZ011-112300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MANSFIELD OHIO 402 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT. AT 450 PM RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM NEAR SHELBY IN NORHTERN RICHLAND COUNTY. THE SHELBY FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AS THE STORM PASSED THROUGH. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND SHOULD REA*CH SAVANNAH IN NORTHWEST ASHLAND COUNTY BY 510 PM. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM CAN EXPECT HEAVY DOWNPOURS...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS OF AROUND 35 MPH AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. DOXEY ...CORRECTED TIMES...
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 5:03 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
OHZ011-112300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MANSFIELD OHIO 502 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT. AT 450 PM RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM NEAR SHELBY IN NORHTERN RICHLAND COUNTY. THE SHELBY FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AS THE STORM PASSED THROUGH. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND SHOULD REAYCH SAVANNAH IN NORTHWEST ASHLAND COUNTY BY 510 PM. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM CAN EXPECT HEAVY DOWNPOURS...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS OF AROUND 35 MPH AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. DOXEY ...CORRECTED TIMES...
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 5:16 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
OHZ004-007-112215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 515 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WERE MOVING TOWARD WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 510 PM AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MANSFIELD MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF WAYNE COUNTY BETWEEN 530 AND 615 PM. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 5:34 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
PAZ001-002-112300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 522 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 10PM... ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL LAKE ERIE... AT 520 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL LAKE ERIE EXTENDING FROM SOUTH OF PORT BURWELL ONTARIO...SOUTHWEST...TO NEAR CLEVELAND OHIO. THIS LINE IS MOVING EASTWARD AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL ENTER THE PENNSYLVANIA WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AROUND 630 PM AND THEN CROSS NORTHWEST INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE SCATTERED OVER CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. TP/TJP/BL
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 5:38 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
PAZ001-002-112300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 522 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 10PM... ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL LAKE ERIE... AT 520 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL LAKE ERIE EXTENDING FROM SOUTH OF PORT BURWELL ONTARIO...SOUTHWEST...TO NEAR CLEVELAND OHIO. THIS LINE IS MOVING EASTWARD AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL ENTER THE PENNSYLVANIA WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AROUND 630 PM AND THEN CROSS INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE SCATTERED OVER CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. TP/TJP/BL
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 5:59 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
OHZ004-007-112230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 558 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WERE MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST OHIO THIS EVENING. AT 555 PM AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY SOUTHWEST TO WOOSTER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL REACH A RAVENNA TO ORRVILLE LINE BY 620 PM AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH SUMMIT...PORTAGE...AND WAYNE COUNTIES THEY WILL PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH. RESIDENTS OF NORTHEAST OHIO SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHEQS. THOMPSON
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.