Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1992, 4:54 AM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1992, 4:54 AM EDT (08:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1992, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 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
- 1999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 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 KPIT 030854 SVRERI PAC049-999-031000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA ISSUED BY PITTSBURGH PA 454 AM EDT FRI JUL 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...ERIE AND ADJOINING WATERS AT 450 AM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM CENTRAL LAKE ERIE INT O EXTREME WESTERN ERIE COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE IMMINENT OR IN PROGRESS. THESE STORMS WILL HAVE DAMAGING WIND..HAIL ..HEAVY RAIN..AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
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 2, 11:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-DDHHMM-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
1130 PM EDT THU JUL 2 1992
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AND THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH WERE IN EFFECT
FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST OHIO HAVE BEEN CANCELLED OR HAVE EXPIRED.
DURING THE EVENING THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MOVED
INTO NORTHWEST OHIO FROM INDIANA HAD DIMINISHED AND DISSIPATED.
ALTHOUGH THERE WERE SOME UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS AT VARIOUS
LOCATIONS...NO SEVERE WEATHER OCCURRED.
MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TOMORROW AS THE COLD FRONT
GETS CLOSER TO OHIO FROM THE WEST AND FINALLY MOVES THROUGH TOMORROW
EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDI A FOR THE
LATEST TRENDS.
ELH
[Special weather statement, Jul 2, 11:33 PM EDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-030500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 1130 PM EDT THU JUL 2 1992 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AND THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH WERE IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST OHIO HAVE BEEN CANCELLED OR HAVE EXPIRED. DURING THE EVENING THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MOVED INTO NORTHWEST OHIO FROM INDIANA HAD DIMINISHED AND DISSIPATED. ALTHOUGH THERE WERE SOME UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS...NO SEVERE WEATHER OCCURRED. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TOMORROW AS THE COLD FRONT GETS CLOSER TO OHIO FROM THE WEST AND FINALLY MOVES THROUGH TOMORROW EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST TRENDS. ELH (CORRECTED TURN-ON CODE)
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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.