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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 18, 1992Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1992, 11:42 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 18, 1992, 11:42 PM EDT (03:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1992, 12:40 AM EDT
In force
58 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, 3.7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1992-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 290 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1992-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KERI 190351
TORERI
PAC049-190445-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA
1142 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ERIE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AND AJACENT LAKE ERIE WATERS
 
 
AT 1140 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF EDINBORO IN ERIE COUNTY. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE
NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 9:54 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEErie66 min
Jun 18, 10:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie61 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.