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Lake Effect Snow Advisory 4, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this lake effect snow advisory at Feb 19, 2008, 10:32 PM EST for Ashtabula County, Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 19, 2008, 11:00 PM EST. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 2008, 10:32 PM EST (03:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 19, 2008, 11:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2008, 5:30 PM EST
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1104 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake effect snow advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this lake effect snow advisory went out at Feb 19, 6:51 PM EST, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 6:51 PM EST, 3 hours 41 minutes before
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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.