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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 20, 2004Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2004, 10:47 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 58 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
May 20, 2004, 10:47 PM EDT (02:47 UTC)
Expired
May 20, 2004, 11:45 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Erie County, PA

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2004-05-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1163 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2004-05-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 284 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1163 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
875 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
284 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
339 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.2
Supercell composite
9.4

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The text

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

644 
WUUS51 KCLE 210247
SVRCLE
PAC049-210345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1047 PM EDT THU MAY 20 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ERIE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 1145 PM EDT

* AT 1047 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF WATTSBURG...OR ABOUT 4
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF ERIE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CORRY
  WATTSBURG

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 4218 7998 4202 8008 4174 7934 4197 7921

$$

LOMBARDY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 20, 11:11 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEErie34 min
May 21, 2:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie28 min
May 21, 6:50 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford115 min
May 21, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford75 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.