Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2002, 1:41 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 64 min. 5 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 28, 2002, 1:41 PM EDT (17:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 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 17:44 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 28, 1:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Edinboro, PA | Nickel size hail was reported north of Edinboro near McKean. |
| Apr 28, 1:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, PA | Thunderstorm winds caused scattered damage across northern Erie County from the western portion of the City of Erie to North East. Many trees, road signs and power poles were downed across the area. Several buildings were damaged in the City of Erie and a fa |
| Apr 28, 1:48 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Erie, PA | Golf ball size hail was reported over Presque Isle. |
| Apr 28, 1:58 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Waterford, PA | Quarter size hail was reported northwest of Waterford. |
| Apr 28, 2:00 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Harborcreek, 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, 5.7 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 419 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 686 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 744 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
081 WUUS51 KCLE 281741 SVRCLE PAC049-281845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 140 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 245 PM EDT * AT 140 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES WEST OF WATERFORD...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ERIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WATERFORD WATTSBURG A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN CLEVELAND. $$ GARNET
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 1:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 1:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie | 32 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.