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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 13, 1998Crawford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1998, 1:29 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 66 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 13, 1998, 1:29 PM EDT (17:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1998, 2:35 PM EDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Crawford County, PA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 2:20 PM EDTThunderstorm WindTroy Center, PATrees were downed in Troy Township.

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, 5.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 223 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
195 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.

192 
WUUS1 KCLE 131731 RRA
SVRCLE
PAC039-131835-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
129 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY PA IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 235 PM EDT

* AT 128 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEADVILLE OR 3 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF CONNEAUT LAKE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR...
  CONNEAUT LAKE
  MEADVILLE
  GUYS MILLS

.SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE
A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

KOSARIK

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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.