Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 289, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1998, 11:28 PM 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
- Jul 19, 1998, 11:28 PM EDT (03:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1998, 12:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 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 03:32 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 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
- 75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 200327 SVRCLE PAC049-PAZ520-200415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1128 PM EDT SUN JUL 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME NORTHEASTERN ERIE COUNTY PA INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 1215 AM EDT * AT 1125 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF ERIE PA MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR... HARBORCREEK NORTH EAST STATE LINE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO fINSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! LAPLANTE
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.
NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 19, 3:08 PM EDT, 8 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 3:08 PM EDT, 8 hours 20 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 308 PM EDT SUN JUL 19 1998 TSRA EXITING FA TO THE SE ATTM BUT WARM FNT REMAINS ACROSS FA. TSRA SHOULD FIRE TO THE NW OF FA AND TRACK SEWD THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT ALONG THE 850-300 MB THICKNESS LINES. ALSO...S/WV SHOWN ON WV IMAGERY HEADED FOR FA OVERNIGHT. WITH VERY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT IN PLACE...PREFER TO GO WITH HIGH CHC POPS. SVR WORDING STILL NEEDED AS SOUNDINGS STILL SUPPORT WIND AND HAIL. BY 12Z MON...THE ETA INDICATEST THAT THE AREA OF TSRA SHOULD BE DROPPING TOWARD THE OH RIVER. WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE CHC POPS IN FM DAY-CMH AND SWD. WITH H5 RIDGE BUILDING NWD TSRA WL BE WDLY SCT AT BEST MON NIGHT AND TU E SO CAN LEAVE DRY ATTM. MOS TEMPS A BIT LOW ON TUE. WILKINSON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 8:05 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-200500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 805 PM EDT SUN JUL 19 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHEAST OHIO TIL 1 AM EDT. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF CLEVELAND...AKRON-CANTON... MANSFIELD AND YOUNGSTOWN. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR NORTHWEST OHIO TIL 10 PM. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF TOLEDO...FINDLAY...FREMONT AND MARION. RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST OHIO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SOME REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN HANCOCK COUNTY. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF NEEDED. KIELTYKA
Local storm report, Jul 19, 10:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
611 PM EDT SUN JUL 19 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0705 PM PERRYSBURG OH .75 INCH HAIL
07/19/98 WOOD
0705 PM FINDLAY OH WIND DAMAGE
07/19/98 HANCOCK A COUPLE OF TREES DOWN
WEST OF FINDLAY.
0709 PM WESTON OH 59 MPH TSTM GUST
07/19/98 WOOD THIS A MEASURED WIND GUST.
0723 PM GENOA OH .75 INCH HAIL
07/19/98 OTTAWA
0735 PM GRAYTOWN OH WIND DAMAGE
07/19/98 OTTAWA SEVERAL LARGE TREES
DOWN...SOME TREES FELL ON
HOMES.Special weather statement, Jul 19, 10:50 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
OHZ009>014-019>023-029>033-038-047-089-200400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1050 PM EDT SUN JUL 19 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH PARTS OF NORTHEAST OHIO HAVE MOVED SOUTH OF THE AREA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OVER NORTHEAST ,OHIO. KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 8:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 61 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.