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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 27, 2005Crawford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2005, 10:19 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 27, 2005, 10:19 PM EDT (02:19 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2005, 10:48 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), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 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 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 00:00Z on 2005-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 162 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 00:00Z on 2005-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1724 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 280220
SVRCLE
PAC039-280245-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0049.050528T0219Z-050528T0245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1019 PM EDT FRI MAY 27 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT

* AT 1010 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING   
  WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES WEST   
OF TITUSVILLE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.


SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. 

LAT...LON 4164 8010 4146 8006 4153 7933 4177 7939

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KCLE 280248
SVSCLE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1046 PM EDT FRI MAY 27 2005

PAC039-280256-
/O.EXP.KCLE.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-050528T0245Z/
CRAWFORD PA-
1046 PM EDT FRI MAY 27 2005


...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CRAWFORD COUNTY EXPIRED AT 
1045 PM...

THE STORM HAS MOVED EAST OF CRAWFORD COUNTY. SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAIN 
MAY LINGER ACROSS PARTS OF CRAWFORD COUNTY BEFORE MIDNIGHT.
 
LAT...LON 4164 8010 4146 8006 4153 7933 4177 7939

$$

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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.