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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 10, 1995Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 1:56 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1995, 1:56 PM EDT (17:56 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1995, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
64 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, 5.9 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 158 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 101756
SVRCLE
PAC049-101900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
156 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY JUST
NORTHEAST OF EDINBORO. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WAS
MOVING TOWARD BRANCHVILLE AND WATERFORD AND THE CITY OF ERIE.
 
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF DRAINAGE
SYSTEMS. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
KOSARIK

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, May 10, 12:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-101705-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1206 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFING ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO WILL CONTINUE TO
STRENGTHEN INTO THIS AFTERNOON AND PROGRESS EASTWARD INTO NORTH CENTRAL
AND NORTHEAST OHIO AFTER 1 PM.  THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE STORMS WILL
BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

AT 1158 AM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
TOLEDO NEAR TIFFIN. THE STORM WAS PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY
RAIN AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORM WILL REACH SANDUSKY
BY 1245 PM.

LATER INFORMATION WILHL BE ISSUED IN SHORT TERM FORECASTS UNDER THE
CLENOWCLE PRODUCT HEADER.

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.