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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 2, 2000Crawford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 45 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: Aug 2, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2000, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Crawford County, PA

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, 9.0 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

467 
WUUS51 KCLE 022103
SVRCLE
PAC039-022145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
500 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 500 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF MEADVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 50
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  TITUSVILLE
  SPARTANSBURG
  MEADVILLE
  CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS

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.

$$

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, 1:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	49 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, 6:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Crawford	2 hr

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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.