Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1992, 4:39 PM EDT for Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 1992, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1992, 5:08 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lawrence County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 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 102040 SVRYNG PAC073-102130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 439 PM EDT FRI JUL 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN YOUNGSTOWN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ...LAWRENCE COUNTY AT 430 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE BORDER OF MAHONING COUNTY...OHIO MOVING INTO LAWRENCE COUNTY... PENNSYLVANIA. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS ...AND HAIL. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE NEWCASTLE AREA BY 500 WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INbSIDE 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. NICK
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 10, 2:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
OHZ006-011-101945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MANSFIELD OH 300 PAM EDT FRI JUL 10 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 8 PM EDT. AT 2350 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM ROCHESTER SOUTH TO 5 MILES EAST OF MANSFIELD AND EXTENDING SOUTH TO COLUMBUS. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL REACH ASHLAND BY 3 PM. THESE STORMS COTULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND HAIL. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. CY ...CORRECTED FILE TIMES... NNNN
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
OHZ006-011-101945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MANSFIELD OH 302 PM EDT FRI JUL 10 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 8 PM EDT. AT 235 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM ROCHESTER SOUTH TO 5 MILES EAST OF MANSFIELD AND EXTENDING SOUTH TO COLUMBUS. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL REACH ASHLAND BY 3 PM. THESE STORMS COULlD PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND HAIL. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. CY ...CORRECTED FILE TIMES... NNNN
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PAZ002-003-004-102100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 312 PM EDT FRI JUL 10 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR CRAWFORD...WARREN ...VENANGO AND FOREST COUNTIES... AT 310 THIS AFTERNOON ERIE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG THE OHIO BORDER AND MOVING EASTWARD INTO CRAWFORD COUNTY NEAR CONNEATVILLE AND THE PYMATUNING RESERVOIR. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE SCATTERED FROM SOUTH OF CLEVELAND OHIO INTO THE PITTSBURGH AREA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EASTWARD AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR. SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTING...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WIND AND SMALL HAIL. PARRISH
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
OHZ004-007-102030-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
330 PM EDT FRI JUL 10 1992
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST-CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 7PM
EDT AND THE NORTHEAST INLAND AREAS WILL BE UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH UNTIL 8 PM EDT.
RADAR AT 310 PM INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST SOUTH OF
CLEVELAND WEST OF ZANESVILLE. THIS LINE CONTAINED MANY STRONG THUNDERSTORM
CELLS. THEY WERE INDICATED IN CENTRAL SUM MIT COUNTY JUST NORTH OF THE
CITY OF AKRON...IN WAYNE COUNTY NEAR WOOSTER..AND OVER NEWCOMERSTOWN IN
SOUTHERN TUSCARAWAS COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH.
THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE
TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL.
THOSE IN EASTERN OHIO SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING CONDITIONS AND BE
PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. {
DEGANSpecial weather statement, Jul 10, 3:45 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
OHZ004-PAZ003-102200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 345 PM EDT FRI JUL 10 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST OHIO AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH ARE SEVERE...WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. AT 335 PM THE LINE RUNS FROM AKRON THROUGH CANTON TO ZANESVILLE. CURRENT MOVEMENT WILL PUT THE LINE INTO SOUTHWEST TRUMBULL AND OVER ALL MAHONING COUNTY BY 4 PM...AND INTO THE CITY OF YOUNGSTOWN BY 445 PM. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS OVER SOUTHERN PORTAGE COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED 1 1/2 INCH HAIL IN THE CITY OF AKRON. IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS MOVE TO THE BASEMENT OR LOWEST INTERIOR ROOM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. SITES/NICK
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 4:32 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
PAZ002-003-004-102200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 425 PM EDT FRI JUL 10 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR CRAWFORD...WARREN ...VENANGO AND FOREST COUNTIES... AT 425 THIS AFTERNOON ERIE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CRAWFORD COUNTY INTO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE 10 zMILES WEST OF TIDIOUTE IN WARREN COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EASTWARD AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR. SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. PARRISH/PAONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cameron, Elk | 66 min |
| Jul 10, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Elk | 42 min |
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.