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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 7, 1995Crawford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1995, 1:41 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1995, 1:41 PM EDT (17:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1995, 2:20 PM EDT
In force
39 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 18:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 802 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
802 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jun 7, 11:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-081200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1155 AM EDT WED JUN 7 1995

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

A COLD FRONT WILL DROP SOUTHEAST ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.  THIS FRONT WILL BE MOVING
INTO A VERY UNSTABLE AND MOIST AIRMASS.  IN ADDITION...A COUPLE OF UPPER
LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE REGION.

THE ABOVE WEATHER FEATURES WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH
THE BEST CHANCE FOR THESE STORMS...COMING BETWEEN 3 PM AND MIDNIGHT.
SOME OF THE STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS
AND HAIL.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST ON
THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL.

BARJENBRUCH
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 11:58 AM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-081200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1155 AM EDT WED JUN 7 1995

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

A COLD FRONT WILL DROP SOUTHEAST ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.  THIS FRONT WILL BE MOVING
INTO A VERY UNSTABLE AND MOIST AIRMASS.  IN ADDITION...A COUPLE OF UPPER
LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE REGION.

THE ABOVE WEATHER FEATURES WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH
THE BEST CHANCE FOR THESE STORMS...COMING BETWEEN 3 PM AND MIDNIGHT.
SOME OF THE STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS
AND HAIL.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST ON
THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL.

BARJENBRUCH

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.