Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1996, 6:09 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 51 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
- Jun 4, 1996, 6:09 PM EDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 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 22:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 6:30 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Union City, 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, 10.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 848 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 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 042210 SVRCLE PAC049-042300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 609 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...ERIE COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AT 610 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED AN INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM NEAR MILL VILLAGE IN SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE NEAR UNION CITY AND BEAVER DAM. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHjER IN A STRONG 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
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, Jun 4, 1:13 PM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
OHZ009>014-019>023-028>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-041900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1259 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST OHIO...AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE EASTERN TWO THIRDS OF OHIO AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS WITH THESE STORMS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING FROM SANDUSKY SOUTH TO UPPER SANDUSKY AND ALSO FROM ASHTABULA SOUTHWEST TO EAST OF CHARDON. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY STRENGTHEN AND MOVE NORTHEAST THROUGH 3 PM. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO...TV AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ONj THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION. LAPLANTE END/LAST NAME
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 3:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
OHZ009>011-019-020-028>031-036>038-047-042030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 343 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND PART OF NORTHEAST OHIO... THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND PART OF NORTHEAST OHIO HAVE DIMINISHED AND ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED WEST OF A LINE FROM CLEVELAND TO MILLERSBURG. SOME TOWNS NO LONGER IN THE WATCH INCLUDE CLEVELAND... MANSFIELD...LORAIN AND MARION. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 7 PM. END/LAPLANTE
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 5:52 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
OHZ012-013-021-022-032-042300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 552 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 1996 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR LAKE...GEAUGA...SUMMIT...STARK AND PORTAGE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A THREAT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES FOR THE REST OF THE EVENING..HOWEVER...THEY SHOULD NOT BE SEVERE. KIELTYKA
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.