Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 6:28 AM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 47 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 26, 1998, 6:28 AM EDT (10:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 7:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 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
- 1359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
547 WUUS1 KCLE 261029 RRA SVRCLE PAC049-PAZ520-261115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 628 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 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 715 AM EDT * AT 625 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF ERIE PA OR 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAMMETT MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR COLT STATION... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS VRCEK
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 26, 5:50 AM EDT, 38 minutes before
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-271200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 550 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT AND A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF THE STATE. A WEAK STATIONARY FRONT WILL STAY FOR THE MOST PART JUST NORTH OF THE STATE TODAY. VERY WARM AND HUMID AIR OVER THE REGION AND THE PROXIMITY OF THE FRONT COULD AID IN THE DEVELOPEMENT OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. SKYWARN ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATIOFN. DEM
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 5:50 AM EDT, 38 minutes before
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-271200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 550 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT AND A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF THE STATE. A WEAK STATIONARY FRONT WILL STAY FOR THE MOST PART JUST NORTH OF THE STATE TODAY. VERY WARM AND HUMID AIR OVER THE REGION AND THE PROXIMITY OF THE FRONT COULD AID IN THE DEVELOPEMENT OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. SKYWARN ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATIOFN. DEM
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 6:17 AM EDT, 11 minutes before
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-281200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 617 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998 THERE WILL BE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT AND A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE OVER THE NORTHEAST HALF OF THE STATE. A WEAK STATIONARY FRONT WILL EXTEND FROM NORTHWEST OHIO TO EAST CENTRAL OHIO FOR MOST OF THE DAY. VERY WARM AND HUMID AIR OVER THE REGION AND THE PROXIMITY OF THE FRONT...COMBINED WITH WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST...WILL AID IN THE DEVELOPEMENT OF WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. SKYWARN ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. WOODWORTH
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1998Every 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.