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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 22, 1995Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 6:35 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1995, 6:35 PM EDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1995, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
55 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, 10.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 605 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 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
605 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 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 222237 RRA
SVRCLE
PAC049-222330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
635 PM EDT THU JUN 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
 
AT 635 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN
WATTSBURG AND CORRY. THE STORM WAS MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH.
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
HILTBRAND

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

Local storm report, Jun 22, 12:35 PM EDT, 6 hours before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1235 PM EDT THU JUN 22 1995

ADDITIONAL REPORTS FROM JUN 21 1995

TIME (LOCAL)  LOCATION           STATE     EVENT/DAMAGE

21/1724       SOUTHERN            OH       TREES DOWNED BY HIGH WIND
              TRUMBULL COUNTY              DIME SIZE HAIL

21/1730       NEAR DIAMOND        OH       4 TREES DOWNED BY HIGH WIND
              PORTAGE COUNTY               DIME SIZE HAIL

21/2111       NORTHWEST           OH       TREES DOWNED BY HIGH WIND
              RICHLAND COUNTY

WOODWORTH
Local storm report, Jun 22, 12:40 PM EDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1235 PM EDT THU JUN 22 1995

ADDITIONAL REPORTS FROM JUN 21 1995

TIME (LOCAL)  LOCATION           STATE     EVENT/DAMAGE

21/1724       SOUTHERN            OH       TREES DOWNED BY HIGH WIND
              TRUMBULL COUNTY              DIME SIZE HAIL

21/1730       NEAR DIAMOND        OH       4 TREES DOWNED BY HIGH WIND
              PORTAGE COUNTY               DIME SIZE HAIL

21/2111       NORTHWEST           OH       TREES DOWNED BY HIGH WIND
              RICHLAND COUNTY

WOODWORTH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford44 min
Jun 22, 7:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie62 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.