Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 214, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2003, 5:25 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2003, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2003, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Erie County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1750 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCLE 162125 SVRCLE PAC049-162215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 525 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 525 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF ALBION...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ERIE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... ALBION EDINBORO 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. LAT...LON 4185 7999 4186 8040 4199 8024 $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 16, 2:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 2:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 215 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003 TNGT...PCPN WITH CDFNT. MOST OF THE SIG PCPN MAY FORM JUST S OF THE LAKESHORE...WL GO LOWER POPS E OF TOL AND W OF ERI. BTR DYNAMICS NW PA WL KP HI POPS ALG THE LAKESHORE. PCPN SHOULD BE JUST AHD OF CDFNT. FNT SHOULD BE OUT OF CWA BY 02Z. GUID MINS LOOK OK WRMR ALG THE LAKESHORE BECAUSE OF NLY FLOW. FOR SUNDAY MODELS TRYING TO HINT AT SOME LO LVLS MSTR. FLOW NOT TOO CYCLONIC WL GO WITH PTLY CLDY. BASED ON NEW MRF WL GO WITH PCPN THU NIGHT INTO FRI...OTRW DRY. THIS SEEMS REASONABLE BASED ON LATEST AVN RUN. .CLE... OH...NONE. PA...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 16, 5:54 AM EDT, 11 hours 31 minutes before
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-161200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 554 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO AND A PORTION OF NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY. THE ATMOSPHERE IS EXPECTED TO BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE PRODUCING DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS...ESPECIALLY THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. LOMBARDY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 16, 4:57 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND,OH
457 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0235 PM NORTHEAST PA WIND DAMAGE
08/16/03 ERIE SEVERAL TREES AND SOME
POWERLINES DOWN.
FMKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.