Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2000, 9:11 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, 9:11 PM EDT (01:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2000, 10:00 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, 9:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Conneautville, PA | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Conneautville and Springboro. A house was damaged by a fallen tree in Conneautville. |
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 00:00Z, 1.2 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
- 1763 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1085 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
622 WUUS51 KCLE 030111 SVRCLE PAC039-030200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 911 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT * AT 911 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF CONNEAUTVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF JEFFERSON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CONNEAUTVILLE 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. $$ GARNET
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 9:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 10:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 11:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 54 min |
| Aug 3, 12:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 12:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 12:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 3 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.