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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 2, 2000Crawford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 2, 2000, 4:19 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 41 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, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 41 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, 8.3 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

294 
WFUS51 KCLE 022019
TORCLE
PAC039-022100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
419 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 419 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF LINESVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF JEFFERSON...
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  MEADVILLE
  LINESVILLE
  CONNEAUTVILLE
  CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS

VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

$$

LAPLANTE

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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.