Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1993, 4:00 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 75 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1993, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1993, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 75 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 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
- 1273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 912 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KERI 062016 SVRCLE PAC049-062115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA 400 PM EDT TUE JUL 6 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ERIE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ...ERIE COUNTY AND AJACENT LAKE ERIE WATERS AT 400 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR LAKE CITY IN NORTHERN ERIE COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF ERIE..LAWRENCE PARK...AND NORTH EAST WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. ...RETRANSMITTED FOR AFOS ACCEPTENCE... BELK/LAMBERT/PARRISH/MILLER
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 6, 11:15 AM EDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
OHZ011-006-061615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MANSFIELD OH 1115 AM EDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...TEST...TEST...TEST... THIS IS ONLY A TEST FOR COMMUNICATIONS PURPOSE. DOXEY NNNN
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 11:15 AM EDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
OHZ011-006-061615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MANSFIELD OH 1115 AM EDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...TEST...TEST...TEST... THIS IS ONLY A TEST FOR COMMUNICATIONS PURPOSE. DOXEY H NNNN
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 3:16 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 316 PM EDT TUE JUL 06 1993 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 300 PM EDT A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED JUST OFFSHORE FROM CONNEAUT OHIO TO NEAR AKRON OHIO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD ARRIVE IN THE VICINITY OF ERIE BEFORE 400 PM EDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. SMALL BOATERS ON LAKE ERIE AND PRESQUE ISLE BAY SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. BELK/PARRISH
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 3:16 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 316 PM EDT TUE JUL 06 1993 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 300 PM EDT A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED JUST OFFSHORE FROM CONNEAUT OHIO TO NEAR AKRON OHIO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD ARRIVE IN THE VICINITY OF ERIE BEFORE 400 PM EDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. SMALL BOATERS ON LAKE ERIE AND PRESQUE ISLE BAY SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. BELK/PARRISH
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 3:40 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
OHZ004-007-062040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 340 PM EDT TUE JUL 06 1993 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE EASTERN TWO-THIRD OF OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 332 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. THERE WAS AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN STARK...SOUTHEASTERN HOLMES AND NORTHWESTERN TUSCARAWAS COUNTIES. THERE WERE OTHER THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL OHIO NEAR COLUMBUS AND ZANESVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UPTO 35 MPH...BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS AND SMALL HAIL. THE HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND EVEN FLOODING OF POOR DRIANAGE AREAS. IK
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 3:41 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
OHZ004-007-062040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 340 PM EDT TUE JUL 06 1993 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE EASTERN TWO-THIRD OF OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 332 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. THERE WAS AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN STARK...SOUTHEASTERN HOLMES AND NORTHWESTERN TUSCARAWAS COUNTIES. THERE WERE OTHER THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL OHIO NEAR COLUMBUS AND ZANESVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UPTO 35 MPH...BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS AND SMALL HAIL. THE HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND EVEN FLOODING OF POOR DRIANAGE AREAS. IK
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.