Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 1992, 8:49 PM EDT for Venango County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 1992, 8:49 PM EDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1992, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Venango County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2262 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KERI 120051 SVRERI PAC121-120145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA 849 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ERIE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ...VENANGO COUNTY WEATHER RADAR AT 847 PM SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN MERCER COUNTY...5 MILES NORTH OF THE TOWN OF STONEBORO. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH..AND WILL ENTER INTO VENANGO COUNTY SHORTLY. 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. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVYN 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, Apr 11, 7:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
OHZ004-120000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 705 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO NORTHERN COLUMBIANA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO THIS EVENING. AT 700 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ALLIANCE MOVING INTO NORTHERN COLUMBIANA COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE SALEM AREA BY 730 PM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. APFEL
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 7:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
OHZ004-PAZ003-120100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 739 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO NORTHERN TRUMBULL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. AT 735 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTH OF ERIE PENNSYLVANIA TO JUST EAST OF CLEVELAND. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING THROUGH TRUMBULL AND MERCER COUNTIES BETWEEN 745 AND 830 THIS EVENING. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. APFEL
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 8:26 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
OHZ004-007-120115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 825 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 ANOTHER ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH PORTAGE...SUMMIT...AND STARK COUNTIES THIS EVENING. AT 820 PM AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SOUTHWEST OF CANTON NORTHEAST THROUGH AKRON TO MANTUA. LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN SUMMIT COUNTY REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAINS IN COPLEY AND} RICHFIELD. WIND GUSTS OF 20 TO 35 MPH WERE ALSO REPORTED. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL PRODUCE BRIEF PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 8:27 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
PAZ001>004-120115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 820 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 10 PM...AND FOR NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 11PM... RADAR AT 815 PM SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ENTENDING FROM NEAR PYMATUNING RESERVOIR IN CRAWFORD COUNTY EAST-NORTHEAST THROUGH THE CITIES OF WARREN AND BRADFORD. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH... WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WITHIN THE LINE WERE MOVING TO THE EAST. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG/GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH... SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...ALONG% WITH SOME FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS. LAMBERT/PARRISH
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 8:40 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
OHZ002-003-120230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO 840 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THE OHIO LAKESHORE. AT 840 THIS EVENING CLEVELAND WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ERIE PENNSYLVANIA TO CLEVELAND TO ELYRIA TO MANSFIELD AND UPPER SANDUSKY. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTH OF MANSFIELD... AND IN THE OHIO LAKESHORE SOUTH OF ELYRIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR AND THEY WILL CONTINUE OVER THE OHIO LAKESHORE COUNTIES AWAY FROM LAKE ERIE THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PUT DOWN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 8:42 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
OHZ004-PAZ003-120200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 843 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST OHIO AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA THIS EVENING. AT 840 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA THROUGH THE YOUNGSTOWN AIRPORT TO AKRON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH YOUNGSTOWN CITY AND WARREN BY 915 PM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. APFEL
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.