Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 451, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 1998, 5:53 PM EST for Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 82 min. 2 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
- Nov 10, 1998, 5:53 PM EST (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 1998, 7:15 PM EST
- In force
- 82 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 6:15 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, PA | Several trees were downed, especially near Edinboro and the city of Erie. |
| Nov 10, 6:45 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 3:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1174 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 498 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
629 WUUS1 KCLE 102255 RRA SVRCLE PAC039-049-110015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 553 PM EST TUE NOV 10 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 715 PM EST * AT 550 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM ASHTABULA TO CANTON... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE HAVE BEEN REPORTED OVER OHIO. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... ERIE MEADVILLE DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS GABRIC &
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, Nov 10, 12:12 PM EST, 5 hours 41 minutes before
OHZ003-006>009-017>019-027-028-036-037-101735- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1140 AM EST TUE NOV 10 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. LUCAS...WOOD...HANCOCK...OTTAWA...SANDUSKY...SENECA...WYANDOT... CRAWFORD...ERIE...HURON...MARION AND MORROW. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO THE AREA DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS...LIKELY AROUND 1 PM. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. BARJENBRUCH CORRECTED TIMING AND COUNTIES INCLUDED
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.