Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Apr 13, 1994, 1:18 AM EDT for Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 1994, 1:18 AM EDT (05:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 1994, 3:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 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 130521 FFWERI PAC039-049-130715- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA 118 AM EDT WED APR 13 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ERIE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 AM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...ERIE COUNTY AT 115 AM EDT ERIE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SITUATED IN SOUTHEASTERN ASHTUBULA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE ENTERING CRAWFORD AND ERIE COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. 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.
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, Apr 12, 9:57 PM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
OHZALL-130900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 955 PM EDT TUE APR 12 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A PORTION OF WESTERN OHIO UNTIL 3AM EDT AND THE REMAINDER OF OHIO EXCEPT SOUTHEAST OHIO UNTIL 5AM EDT. SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE CINCINNATI...DAYTON...FINDLAY... TOLEDO...CLEVELAND...COLUMBUS...ZANESVILLE AND YOUNGSTOWN. WARM MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WAS IN PLACE ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY THIS EVENING AND A COLD FRONT WAS MOVING THROUGH INDIANA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ALONG THE FRONT THIS EVENING AND WERE MOVING INTO WESTERN AND SOUTHERN OHIO. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS THE STATE TONIGHT. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE STATE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 1:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lawrence, Mercer | 4 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 117 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1994Every flash flood warning in 1994
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.