Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2000, 10:30 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 45 min. 3 reports 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
- Jun 14, 2000, 10:30 PM EDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2000, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 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 02:34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 10:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Girard, PA | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in and around Girard. |
| Jun 14, 10:44 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Lake City, PA | Dime size hail was reported one mile east of Lake City. |
| Jun 14, 10:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Girard, PA | Nickel size hail was reported just west of Girard. |
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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1812 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 10.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
014 WUUS51 KCLE 150232 SVRCLE PAC049-150315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1030 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 1115 PM EDT * AT 1031 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF WATERFORD...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF ERIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WATTSBURG WATERFORD 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 IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS WHICH MAY BE WASHED OUT. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 65 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.