Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2002, 4:28 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 62 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
- Jun 5, 2002, 4:28 PM EDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Linesville, PA | A F1 tornado briefly touched down two miles northeast of Linesville. The tornado had a damage path nearly a quarter mile in length and 200 yards in width. No structural damage occurred, but dozens of trees were toppled. |
| Jun 5, 4:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, PA | Thunderstorm winds downed dozens of trees across the county. A few of the hardest hit towns include Centerville, Linesville, Cochranton and Conneaut Lake. |
| Jun 5, 4:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Conneautville, PA | Thunderstorm winds downed a large number of trees southwest of Conneautville near the intersection of West Center Road and Linesville-Conneautville Road. |
| Jun 5, 5:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Conneaut Lake, PA | Thunderstorm winds overturned and destroyed a mobile home just south of Conneaut Lake. Eight trees nearby were also blown down. |
| Jun 5, 5:40 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Spartansburg, PA | Dime size hail was observed southwest of Spartansburg. |
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 5, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 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
- 594 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1144 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 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 052028 SVRCLE PAC039-052130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 429 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 429 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF CONNEAUTVILLE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF JEFFERSON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS CONNEAUTVILLE LINESVILLE MEADVILLE SPARTANSBURG TITUSVILLE 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 11:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 1:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 4:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Crawford | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.