Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 8, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this wind advisory at Nov 18, 2015, 3:18 PM EST for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 18, 2015, 3:18 PM EST (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 18, 2015, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
County Erie County, PA
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
631 WWUS71 KCLE 182018 NPWCLE URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 318 PM EST WED NOV 18 2015 PAZ001-190300- /O.CAN.KCLE.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-151119T0300Z/ /O.NEW.KCLE.WI.Y.0008.151118T2018Z-151119T0300Z/ NORTHERN ERIE- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...ERIE 318 PM EST WED NOV 18 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING... ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING. THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * TIMING...INTO THIS EVENING * WINDS...SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. * IMPACTS...SOME POWER LINES AND TREE LIMBS MAY COME DOWN. STRONG WINDS COULD MAKE TRAVEL DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DAMAGE TO TREES...POWER LINES...AND PROPERTY ARE POSSIBLE WITH WIND OF THIS MAGNITUDE. IF YOU HAVE A HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES BE EXTRA CAREFUL UNTIL THE WIND SUBSIDES. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS OF THESE MAGNITUDES MAY CAUSE MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE WITHOUT EXTRA PRECAUTIONS. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CAUTION UNTIL THE WINDS SUBSIDE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. && $$ OHZ003-006>012-017>020-027>031-036>038-047-089-PAZ002-182130- /O.CAN.KCLE.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-151119T0000Z/ LUCAS-WOOD-OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-HANCOCK- SENECA-HURON-MEDINA-WYANDOT-CRAWFORD-RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE- MARION-MORROW-HOLMES-KNOX-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-SOUTHERN ERIE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TOLEDO...BOWLING GREEN...PORT CLINTON... FREMONT...SANDUSKY...LORAIN...CLEVELAND...MENTOR...FINDLAY... TIFFIN...NORWALK...MEDINA...UPPER SANDUSKY...CAREY...BUCYRUS... MANSFIELD...ASHLAND...WOOSTER...MARION...MOUNT GILEAD... MILLERSBURG...MOUNT VERNON...ASHTABULA...EDINBORO 318 PM EST WED NOV 18 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. $$
1 follow-up statement
686 WWUS71 KCLE 190308 NPWCLE URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1008 PM EST WED NOV 18 2015 PAZ001-190415- /O.EXP.KCLE.WI.Y.0008.000000T0000Z-151119T0300Z/ NORTHERN ERIE- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...ERIE 1008 PM EST WED NOV 18 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... WINDS ACROSS NORTHERN ERIE COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA HAVE DIMINISHED ENOUGH TO DROP BELOW THE WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. THEREFORE...THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ LOMBARDY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 3:15 AM EST | High Wind Warning | CLE | Erie | 12 hr |
| Nov 18, 3:15 AM EST | Wind Advisory | CLE | Erie | 12 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.