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Lake Effect Snow Advisory 3, NWS Cleveland, OH

December 11, 20054 counties in Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this lake effect snow advisory at Dec 11, 2005, 3:18 PM EST for 4 counties in Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 21 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 11, 2005, 3:18 PM EST (20:18 UTC)
Expired
Dec 12, 2005, 12:00 PM EST
In force
21 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH

Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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 221 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2005-12-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2005-12-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.