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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 18, 1992Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1992, 9:54 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 66 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 18, 1992, 9:54 PM EDT (01:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1992, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Erie County, PA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 18, 10:17 PM EDT	Hail 1	Erie, PA
Jun 18, 11:05 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 00:00Z, 1.9 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 290 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1371 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KERI 190155
TORERI
PAC049-190300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA
954 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ERIE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AND AJACENT LAKE ERIE WATERS
 
 
WEATHER RADAR AT 955 PM EDT SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST TO NORTH
OF NORTH SPRINGFIELD IN WESTERN ERIE COUNTY.
 
THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15MPH.
 
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE FAIRVIEW...GIRARD...LAKE CITY AND
THE CITY OF ERIE.
 
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO
A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE.  AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 10:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	61 min
Jun 18, 11:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Erie	58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.