Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 16, 1998Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1998, 3:00 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 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 16, 1998, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1998, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 60 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 19:02 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 16, 4:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Girard, PA	Power poles were downed.

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, 7.0 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 724 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 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.

031 
WUUS1 KCLE 161901 RRA
SVRCLE
PAC049-PAZ520-162000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
300 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ERIE COUNTY PA INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN NORTHWESTERN
  PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 257 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF JEFFERSON OR 10 MILES WEST
  OF ALBION MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR WEST SPRINGFIELD...NORTH
SPRINGFIELD...GIRARD AND LAKE CITY AND ALONG I-90....

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

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 3:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Erie	3 hr
Jun 16, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	49 min
Jun 16, 4:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Crawford	2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.