Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1998, 1:22 PM EDT for Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 33 min. 3 reports 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
- May 29, 1998, 1:22 PM EDT (17:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1998, 1:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Corry, PA | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| May 29, 1:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville, PA | Trees were downed. |
| May 29, 1:54 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Cochranton, PA | Trees 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
902 WUUS1 KCLE 291723 RRA SVRCLE PAC039-049-291755- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 122 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY PA IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CRAWFORD COUNTY PA IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 155 PM EDT * AT 120 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR CORRY AND JUST EAST OF MEADVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... CORRY TITUSVILLE .SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS GABRIC
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.