Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 51, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 8:23 PM EST for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report 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
- Nov 10, 2002, 8:23 PM EST (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 9:30 PM EST
- In force
- 67 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 01:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 8:30 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Cochranton, PA | A tornado touched down near Cochranton near the intersection of Stein Hill and Lausch Roads and then traveled northeast about three quarters of a mile before dissipating. A barn and small cottage were completely destroyed. Three homes and another small barn |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 6:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 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
- 356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1132 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 451 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
480 WFUS51 KCLE 110123 TORCLE PAC039-110230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 823 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 930 PM EST * AT 823 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTH OF MEADVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... MEADVILLE SPARTANSBURG THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 8:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 56 min |
| Nov 10, 8:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 51 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.