Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2000, 10:28 PM EDT for Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 47 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
- Apr 20, 2000, 10:28 PM EDT (02:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 10:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, PA | Thunderstorm winds downed two trees just north of Crossingville. A third tree was knocked down north of Conneaut Lake. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 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
- 655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 465 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 591 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
403 WUUS51 KCLE 210229 SVRCLE PAC039-049-210315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1028 PM EDT THU APR 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA ERIE COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 1115 PM EDT * AT 1028 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 22 MILES NORTH OF ASHTABULA TO 5 MILES NORTH OF YOUNGSTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WATERFORD UNION CITY MEADVILLE LINESVILLE ERIE EDINBORO CONNEAUTVILLE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN CLEVELAND. $$ GARNET
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.