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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 19, 1998Crawford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 4:24 AM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 36 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: Jun 19, 1998, 4:24 AM EDT (08:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1998, 5:00 AM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Crawford County, PA

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:23 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 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-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: 261 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -158 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1510 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 190826 RRA
SVRCLE
PAC039-190900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
424 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 AM EDT

* AT 423 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEADVILLE OR 6 MILES WEST
  OF HARTSTOWN MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR...
  HARTSTOWN

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

KOSARIK

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 19, 3:47 AM EDT, 37 minutes before

OHZ003-006-190830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
347 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM EDT
FOR LUCAS AND WOOD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WATCH HAS MOVED EAST OF
THE AREA.

CONDITIONS MAY ONCE AGIN BECOME FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
IN THE AREA LATER TODAY SO STAY INFORMED ON THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION
ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR FROM YOUR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS.

ADAMS

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.