Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1996, 5:00 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 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
- Aug 15, 1996, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1996, 6:00 PM 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 21:01 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, 5:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville, 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 12:00Z, 9.0 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
- 574 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 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 152100 SVRCLE PAC039-152200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 500 PM EDT THU AUG 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...CRAWFORD COUNTY AT 458 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CRAWFORD COUNTY JUST EAST OF THE CITY OF MEADVILLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH...AND HEADING TOWARDS THE CITY OF CENTERVILLE. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELE PHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. 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, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 65 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 |
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.