Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 3:43 PM EDT for Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1995, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1995, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:10 PM EDT | Tornado 0 | Saegertown, PA | A small tornado touched down on the north side of the small community and skipped southeast entering neighboring Woodcock Township before lifting back into the clouds. Numerous trees were downed. Seven homes and several cars suffered minor damage from falling |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 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
- 740 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 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 KCLE 241945 SVRCLE PAC039-049-242045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 343 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...ERIE COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 341 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN PORTIONS OF ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST 50 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL HIT THE CITIES OF LINESVILLE...CONNEAUTVILLE ...MEADVILLE...CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS AND EDINBORO BY 415 PM. IF YOU ARE CA>UGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. WOODWORTH
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 24, 12:34 PM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
OH029>033-OH036>038-OH047-251200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 1235 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THIS AREA INCLUDES THE CITIES OF YOUNGSTOWN...CANTON AND MANSFIELD IN EASTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. A COLD FRONT WAS SINKING SOUTH INTO OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. WARM UNSTABLE AIR AHEAD OF THE FRONT WAS BEING BROUGHT INTO THE STATE VIA STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS. THE AIRMASS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE DURING THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON. WITH THE COLD FRONT APPROACHING...STRONG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 KNOTS/ 58 MPH COULD DEVELOP. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIAL DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. SEM
Special weather statement, May 24, 12:38 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
OHZ029>033-OHZ036>038-OHZ047-251200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1235 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THIS AREA INCLUDES THE CITIES OF YOUNGSTOWN...CANTON AND MANSFIELD IN EASTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. A COLD FRONT WAS SINKING SOUTH INTO OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. WARM UNSTABLE AIR AHEAD OF THE FRONT WAS BEING BROUGHT INTO THE STATE VIA STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS. THE AIRMASS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE DURING THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON. WITH THE COLD FRONT APPROACHING...STRONG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 KNOTS/ 58 MPH COULD DEVELOP. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIAL DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. SEM ...CORRECTD HEADER CODES...
Special weather statement, May 24, 1:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
OHZ020>023-028>033-036>038-047-PAZ003-242300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 137 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF NORTHERN OHIO UNTIL 7 PM EDT. THE WATCH EXTENDS SOUTH FROM CRAWFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA TO MEDINA... TO MANSFIELD TO CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF AKRON-CANTON...YOUNGSTOWN...MANSFIELD AND MARION OHIO. AN AREA OF RAPIDLY MOVING THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH-CENTRAL OHIO AT 1:40 PM WAS OVER SENECA COUNTY OHIO NEAR FOSTORIA. IT WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORWALK AND OBERLIN AREA BY 3 PM EDT. A SECOND AREA OF STORM WAS MOVING INTO THE MARION OHIO AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS FROM THE WEATHER SERVICE. DEB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Crawford | 43 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.