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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 20, 2004Crawford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at May 20, 2004, 7:16 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 29 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, 7:16 PM EDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
May 20, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Crawford County, PA

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2004-05-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2004-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 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 202316
TORCLE
PAC039-202345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
716 PM EDT THU MAY 20 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 716 PM EDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  SPARTANSBURG...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEADVILLE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  SPARTANSBURG

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 4158 8000 4171 8016 4186 7998 4185 7966
          4183 7963

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 20, 7:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford2 hr

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.