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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Cleveland, OH

November 7, 1996Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 8:00 PM EST for Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 7, 1996, 8:00 PM EST (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Nov 7, 1996, 9:00 PM EST
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 00:00Z on 1996-11-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-11-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 537 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
537 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
526 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 080102
SVRCLE
PAC039-049-080200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
800 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...ERIE COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE
 
AT 8 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS OVER ASHTABULA COUNTY NEAR THE CITIES OF JEFFERSON AND
ORWELL. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH...AND WILL PASS NEAR
THE CITIES OF MEADVILLE IN CRAWFORD COUNTY...AND ALBION AND
ERIE CITY IN ERIE COUNTY.
 
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 WATtER CROSSINGS.
 
END/COMEAUX

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, Nov 7, 7:44 PM EST, 16 minutes before
OHZ012>014-022-023-029>033-037-038-047-051-089-PAZ001>003-080400-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
745 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA.

IN OHIO:

ASHTABULA                GEAUGA                   HOLMES
LAKE                     MAHONING                 MIAMI
PORTAGE                  STARK                    TRUMBULL

IN PENNSYLVANIA:

CRAWFORD              ERIE

A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST OHIO AT 730
PM EST. THEY WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA BETWEEN 8 AND 9 PM.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAS BEEN
CANCELLED.

ASHLAND                  KNOX                     MORROW
RICHLAND                 WAYNE

THE HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FOR LARGE PORTION OF EXTREME NORTHEAST
OHIO...AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA HAS
BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER THE LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH
EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO COULD PRODUCE WINDS AROUND 60 MPH. THE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA BETWEEN 8 8AND 9 PM.

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.