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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 5, 2002Crawford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2002, 4:37 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 53 min. 3 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, 4:37 PM EDT (20:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 53 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 20:36 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, 4:50 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, 8.6 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS51 KCLE 052037
TORCLE
PAC039-052130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
437 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 437 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF LINESVILLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF MEADVILLE...
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CONNEAUTVILLE
  LINESVILLE
  MEADVILLE
  TITUSVILLE

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE
IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.

$$

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, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	62 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.