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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 29, 1995Crawford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1995, 2:45 AM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1995, 2:45 AM EDT (06:45 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1995, 3:45 AM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Crawford County, PA

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 142 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1995-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 130 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1995-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 347 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
130 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
604 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
347 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
435 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 290645
SVRCLE
PAC039-290745-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
245 AM EDT MON MAY 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...CRAWFORD COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING
EAST AT 35 MPH FROM TRUMBULL COUNTY OHIO INTO CRAWFORD COUNTY
PENNSYLVANIA. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS
THIS MORNING.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF DRAINAG*E
SYSTEMS. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES 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 29, 12:27 AM EDT, 2 hours 18 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
Special weather statement, May 29, 1:58 AM EDT, 47 minutes before
OHZ019-027-028-290800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
157 AM EDT MON MAY 29 1995

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CRAWFORD...HURON AND WYANDOT COUNTIES
HAS BEEN CANCELLvED.

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST AND SOUTH 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 12:31 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie59 min
May 29, 1:26 AM EDTTornado WarningCLECrawford64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1995Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.