Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2016, 5:54 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2016, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2016, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Crawford County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 6:18 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Ne Meadville, PA | BRANCHES DOWN AND PEA SIZE HAIL AT RTES 86 AND 198. ROTATING WALL CLOUD 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEADVILLE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
198
WUUS51 KCLE 252154
SVRCLE
PAC039-252300-
/O.NEW.KCLE.SV.W.0062.160825T2154Z-160825T2300Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
554 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...
* UNTIL 700 PM EDT
* AT 554 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
HARMONSBURG... OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF MEADVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
25 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MEADVILLE...TITUSVILLE...CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS...RICEVILLE...
LINCOLNVILLE...CANADOHTA LAKE...GUYS MILLS...HARMONSBURG...
SAEGERTOWN...CONNEAUTVILLE...CONNEAUT LAKE...HYDETOWN...
BLOOMING VALLEY...TOWNVILLE...SPARTANSBURG...VENANGO...
CENTERVILLE...WOODCOCK AND CONNEAUT LAKESHORE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4162 7982 4157 7988 4160 8039 4178 8039
4186 7962 4185 7961 4162 7961
TIME...MOT...LOC 2154Z 271DEG 22KT 4169 8030
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
LAPLANTE2 follow-up statements
198
WWUS51 KCLE 252219
SVSCLE
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
619 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2016
PAC039-252300-
/O.CON.KCLE.SV.W.0062.000000T0000Z-160825T2300Z/
CRAWFORD PA-
619 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY...
AT 619 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GUYS
MILLS...OR NEAR MEADVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MEADVILLE...TITUSVILLE...RICEVILLE...LINCOLNVILLE...GUYS MILLS...
CANADOHTA LAKE...SAEGERTOWN...HYDETOWN...BLOOMING VALLEY...
TOWNVILLE...SPARTANSBURG...VENANGO...CENTERVILLE AND WOODCOCK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4162 7982 4157 7988 4163 8018 4177 8019
4186 7962 4185 7961 4162 7961
TIME...MOT...LOC 2219Z 271DEG 26KT 4168 8005
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
LAPLANTE563
WWUS51 KCLE 252239
SVSCLE
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
639 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2016
PAC039-252300-
/O.CON.KCLE.SV.W.0062.000000T0000Z-160825T2300Z/
CRAWFORD PA-
639 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL CRAWFORD COUNTY...
AT 638 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GUYS
MILLS...OR 15 MILES EAST OF MEADVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TITUSVILLE...GUYS MILLS...HYDETOWN...TOWNVILLE AND CENTERVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4157 7988 4161 7999 4172 7998 4178 7961
4162 7961 4162 7982
TIME...MOT...LOC 2238Z 271DEG 26KT 4168 7986
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
LAPLANTENearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2016Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.