Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2000, 1:56 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 2, 2000, 1:56 PM EDT (17:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2000, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 2:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Titusville, PA | Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 685 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
551 WUUS51 KCLE 021756 SVRCLE PAC039-021845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 156 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 245 PM EDT * AT 156 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPARTANSBURG...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF MEADVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... SPARTANSBURG LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM 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. $$ GARNET
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 53 min |
| Aug 2, 1:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 2:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 114 min |
| Aug 2, 4:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Crawford | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 6:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 2 hr |
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.