Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2002, 3:32 PM EDT for Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 43 min. 2 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
- May 9, 2002, 3:32 PM EDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2002, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 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 19:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 3:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Riceville, PA | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| May 9, 3:52 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Corry, PA | Thunderstorm winds tore the roof off of a factory. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 11:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 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
- 208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 091932 SVRCLE PAC039-049-092015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 332 PM EDT THU MAY 9 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA... ERIE COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 332 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF UNION CITY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEADVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CORRY SPARTANSBURG UNION CITY 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. $$
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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.