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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 14, 1995Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 3:25 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1995, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1995, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 65 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, 7.4 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1330 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 319 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 310 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 141925
SVRCLE
PAC049-142030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
325 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 325 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST
EAST OF ASHTABULA IN NORTHEAST OHIO MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. IT WILL MOVE
IN WESTERN ERIE COUNTY BY 345 PM. WINDS GUSTS TO 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL
ARE LIKELY.
 
 
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GET TO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND
PREPARE ^FOR STRONG... DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL... VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND LIGHTNING. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND
OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

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 14, 2:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

OHZALL-142015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
219 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995

A TORNADOES WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHEASTERN QUARTER OF OHIO
UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING.

STRONMG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED QUICKLY OVER
NORTHERN LORAIN COUNTY JUST BEFORE 2 PM AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARCNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM FOR LORAIN COUNTY. A SPECIAL MARINE
WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT ON LAKE ERIE UNTIL 345 PM FROPM VERMILION TO
FAIRPORT HARBOR.

THUNDERSTORM ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE TO DEVCELOP QUICKLY THE REMAINDER OF
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND ALL PERSONS IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE ALERT
FOR ANY THREATENING WEATHER AND LATER WEATHER SERVICE WARNINGS AND
STATEMENTS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 5:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	64 min
May 14, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	67 min
May 14, 4:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Erie	56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.