Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 21, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2001, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Titusville, PA | Thunderstorms downed many trees. One of the fallen trees damaged a house. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 410 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 212300 SVRCLE PAC039-212345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 700 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 745 PM EDT * AT 700 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TITUSVILLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF OIL CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... TITUSVILLE SPARTANSBURG HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 58 MILES AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE 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. $$ BB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 44 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.