Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2002, 5:12 PM EDT for Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 63 min. 4 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
- Apr 15, 2002, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2002, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 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 21:16 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 15, 5:15 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Union City, PA | Dime size hail was reported. |
| Apr 15, 5:48 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Meadville, PA | Quarter size hail was reported three miles north of Meadville. |
| Apr 15, 6:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Saegertown, PA | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
| Apr 15, 6:15 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Meadville, PA | Quarter size hail was reported. |
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 12:00Z, 9.2 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
- 577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 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 152112 SVRCLE PAC039-049-152215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 512 PM EDT MON APR 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA... ERIE COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 512 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALBION...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF MEADVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... ALBION CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS CONNEAUTVILLE CORRY EDINBORO SPARTANSBURG TITUSVILLE UNION CITY WATERFORD WATTSBURG 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Crawford | 48 min |
| Apr 15, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 30 min |
| Apr 15, 6:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 118 min |
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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.