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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 9, 2000Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 8:57 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 63 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
May 9, 2000, 8:57 PM EDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 2000, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
63 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 01:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 1.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2000-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 838 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2000-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
838 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1173 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 100058
SVRCLE
PAC049-100200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
857 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ERIE COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT

* AT 857 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 1 MILE NORTH OF ERIE...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 
MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  NORTH EAST
  ERIE

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS AND WINDS UP TO 80 MILES AN HOUR ARE
EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL
THE STORM HAS PASSED.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE SMTORM HAS PASSED.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN CLEVELAND.

$$

BAV

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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.