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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 272, NWS Cleveland, OH

December 1, 1996Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 1, 1996, 1:16 PM EST for Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 59 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
Dec 1, 1996, 1:16 PM EST (18:16 UTC)
Expired
Dec 1, 1996, 2:15 PM EST
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Dec 1, 1:45 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 52Conneautville, PA
Dec 1, 1:45 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 50Mckean, 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, 6.3 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 12:00Z on 1996-12-01Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1996-12-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 226 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
281 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 011835 COR
SVRCLE
PAC039-049-011915-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
116 PM EST SUN DEC 1 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN  PENNSYLVANIA

   ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...ERIE COUNTY

AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE


A BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST OHIO WILL SWEEP THROUGH
ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA BY 230 PM. THE
LEADNG EDGE OF THE STORMS WILL REACH THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF ERIE AND
CRAWFORD COUNTIES BY 145 PM AND THE CITIES OF ERIE AND MEADVILLE
BY 2 PM.

WIND GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN
NORTHEAST OHIO. ALSO...A TRAVEL TRAILER WAS BLOWN OVER ON I-77 AND SOME
ROOF DAMAGE WAS ALSO REPORTED.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STR"ONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

GABRIC
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CORRECTED SCRAMBLED WORDS

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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.