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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 26, 2005Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2005, 7:53 AM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 20 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: Jul 26, 2005, 7:53 AM EDT (11:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2005, 8:13 AM EDT
In force: 20 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), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:53 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -203 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 261153
SVRCLE
PAC049-261245-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0166.050726T1153Z-050726T1245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
753 AM EDT TUE JUL 26 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 AM EDT

* AT 747 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  RURAL CENTRAL ERIE COUNTY...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL EASTERN ERIE COUNTY

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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 4210 7999 4193 7992 4209 7904 4233 7913

$$

MRD

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KCLE 261213
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
813 AM EDT TUE JUL 26 2005

PAC049-261223-
/O.CAN.KCLE.SV.W.0166.000000T0000Z-050726T1245Z/
ERIE PA-
813 AM EDT TUE JUL 26 2005


...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ERIE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED 
OUT OF THE COUNTY.


LAT...LON 4210 7999 4193 7992 4209 7904 4233 7913

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	58 min
Jul 26, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.