Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1995, 12:31 AM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1995, 12:31 AM EDT (04:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1995, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- 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, 4.5 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
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 444 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 522 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 290432 SVRCLE PAC049-290530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1231 AM EDT MON MAY 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...ERIE COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ASHTABULA COUNTY MOVING EASTWARD TOWARDS ERIE COUNTY AT 30 MPH. ASHTABULA POLICE REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL AT 1223 AM IN THE CITY OF ASHTABULA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VE\RY HEAVY RAIN. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. END/COMEAUX &
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 28, 6:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005-006-007-008-009-010-011-012-013-014-017-018-019- 020-021-022-023-027-028-029-030-031-032-033-036-037-038-047-290245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 642 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... ...HIGH WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN HALF OF OHIO... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST OHIO AS SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN INDIANA AND LOWER MICHIGAN CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST. AS OF 630 PM THIS EVENING...NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD BEEN REPORTED IN THE STATE OF OHIO. ONLY A FEW WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MADE THEIR WAY TO OHIO SO FAR THIS EVENING WHERE THEY WERE MOSTLY CONFINED TO WILLIAMS...DEFIANCE AND HENRY COUNTIES IN EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL OHIO IN HOCKING COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MPH. THE HIGH WIND ADVISORY CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING FOR ALL OF NORTHERN OHIO. THIS IS DUE TO A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER SOUTHERN WISCONSIN MOVING NORTHEASTWARD TOWARDS CANADA. THE STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT AROUND THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL RESULT IN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 40 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBNLE WARNINGS. THE OHIO COUNTIES IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ARE: WILLIAMS...DEFIANCE...FULTON...HENRY...VAN WERT...MERCER...DARKE AND PAULDING. END/COMEAUX
Special weather statement, May 28, 7:56 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005-006-007-008-009-010-017-018-019-027-290400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 755 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 750 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF NEWLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST NORTH OF TOLEDO TO VAN WERT OHIO. THIS LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MPH...AND WILL MOVE THROUGH LUCAS...HENRY2 AND WOOD COUNTIES BY 830 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS ...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. END/COMEAUX
Special weather statement, May 28, 8:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005-006-007-008-009-010-011-017-018-019-020-027-290415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 814 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 815 PM THIS EVENING DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND HAIL. THESE STORMS ARE LOlCATED FROM LUCAS COUNTY THROUGH WOOD...HENRY AND PUTNAM COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH OTTAWA...SANDUSKY...SENECA AND HANCOCK COUTNIES BY 9 PM. END/COMEAUX
Special weather statement, May 29, 12:27 AM EDT, 4 minutes before
OHZ006>009-017-018-290600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1226 AM EDT MON MAY 29 1995 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ERIE...HANCOCK...OTTAWA...SANDUSKY... SENECA AND JWOOD COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE AREA AND NO FURTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. HILTBRAND
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:26 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Crawford | 64 min |
| May 29, 2:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.