Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1996, 3:41 AM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 49 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
- Jul 19, 1996, 3:41 AM EDT (07:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1996, 4:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 49 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 07:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 4:15 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Linesville, PA |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 429 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 190742 SVRCLE PAC039-190830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 341 AM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...CRAWFORD COUNTY AT 340 AM DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CONNEAUTIVLLE. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME TOWNS IN ITS PATH ARE SAEGERTOWN AND BLOOMING VALLEY. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Jul 19, 2:34 AM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
OHZ012>014-023-PAZ001>003-190800- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 230 AM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EDT FOR LAKE...GEAUGA...ASHTABULA AND TRUMBULL COUNTIES IN OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM AVON POINT TO RIPLEY TILL 3 AM EDT. A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ASHTABULA AND ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA TIL 345 AM EDT. A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR LAKE COUNTY AND CRAWFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA TILL 415 AM EDT. AT 230 AM DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM LOWER MICHIGAN ACROSS LAKE ERIE TO EAST OF CLEVELAND AND INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. JUST BEFORE 1 AM DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN CHERRY VALLEY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY. AT 138 AM EDT ONE TREE WENT DOWN IN AUBURN TOWNSHIP IN SOUTHERN GEAUGA COUNTY. AT 210 AM A LITTLE STREET FLOODING WAS OCCURRING IN PAINESVILLE TOWNSHIP IN LAKE COUNTY. SOME RAINFALL REPORTS FROM ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA...2 INCHES IN WEST SPRINGFIELD...1.75 IN ALBION AND 1.34 IN LAKE CITY. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR WARNINGS ARE ISSUED PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. KIELTYKA &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 1:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 4:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 4:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 8:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 11:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 3:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 3 hr |
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.