Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1996, 2:25 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 15, 1996, 2:25 PM EDT (18:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1996, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, PA
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 2:30 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Western Half, PA | |
| Aug 15, 2:42 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Western Third, 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 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
- 944 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 151826 SVRCLE PAC049-151930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 225 PM EDT THU AUG 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...ERIE COUNTY AT 225 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE CITY OF CONNEAUT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH WILL PASS NEAR THE CITY OF ALBION BY 250 PM. 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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PRO TECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. END/COMEAUX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 55 min |
| Aug 15, 2:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 118 min |
| Aug 15, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 58 min |
| Aug 15, 4:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 39 min |
| Aug 15, 4:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 5:00 PM 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.