Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Cleveland, OH
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.
- 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
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
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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.