Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Feb 21, 1994, 5:30 AM EST for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 1994, 5:30 AM EST (10:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 1994, 11:45 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- 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, 10.5 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 KERI 211040 FFWERI PAC049-211645- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED ICE JAM FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA 530 AM EST MON FEB 21 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ERIE HAS ISSUED A ICE JAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ...ERIE COUNTY ICE JAM FLOODING CONTINUES ALONG THE ELK CREEK IN LAKE CITY IN GIRARD TOWNSHIP. FLOODING FROM THE ICE JAM WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF RTE 5 AND ALONG THE ELK PARK ROAD AREA. WITH ONLY LIGHT DRIZZLE EXPECTED THIS MORNING AND COLDER TEMPERATURES SLOWING THE SNOWMELT RUNOFF UPSTREAM...CONDITIONS SHOULD BEGIN TO IMPROVE BY THIS AFTERNOON. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS W^HERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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, Feb 21, 4:14 AM EST, 1 hour 16 minutes before
PAZ001>006-008>011-211300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 414 AM EST MON FEB 21 1994 ...AREAS OF DENSE FOG IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... DRIVERS ACROSS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THIS MORNING SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR AREAS OF DENSE FOG. VISIBILITY HAS BEEN REDUCED TO 1/4 OF A MILE OR LESS IN SOME AREAS. GIVE YOURSELF PLENTY OF TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION IF YOU MUST TRAVEL THIS MORNING. VISIBILITY SHOULD BEGIN TO IMPROVE AFTER SUNRISE. PARRISH
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 4:25 AM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
PAZ001>006-008>011-211300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 414 AM EST MON FEB 21 1994 ...AREAS OF DENSE FOG IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... DRIVERS ACROSS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THIS MORNING SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR AREAS OF DENSE FOG. VISIBILITY HAS BEEN REDUCED TO 1/4 OF A MILE OR LESS IN SOME AREAS. GIVE YOURSELF PLENTY OF TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION IF YOU MUST TRAVEL THIS MORNING. VISIBILITY SHOULD BEGIN TtO IMPROVE AFTER SUNRISE. PARRISH
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 5:18 AM EST, 12 minutes before
0HZ023-033-PAZ007-211300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 518 AM EST MON FEB 21 1994 DENSE FOG WAS WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE MAHONING AND SHENANGO VALLEYS THIS MORNING. AT TIMES THE VISIBILITY AT THE YOUNGSTOWN-WARREN AIRPORT WAS REDUCED TO ONE-HALF MILE. THE VISIBILITY WILL GRADUALLY IMPROVE AFTER SUNRISE. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION AND ALLOW FOR EXTRA TRAVEL TIME THIS MORNING. WILKINSON
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 5:18 AM EST, 12 minutes before
0HZ023-033-PAZ007-211300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 518 AM EST MON FEB 21 1994 DENSE FOG WAS WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE MAHONING AND SHENANGO VALLEYS THIS MORNING. AT TIMES THE VISIBILITY AT THE YOUNGSTOWN-WARREN AIRPORT WAS REDUCED TO ONE-HALF MILE. THE VISIBILITY WILL GRADUALLY IMPROVE AFTER SUNRISE. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION AND ALLOW FOR EXTRA TRAVEL TIME THIS MORNING. WILKINSON
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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.