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Lake Effect Snow Warning 6, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this lake effect snow warning at Nov 16, 2008, 3:46 AM EST for 4 counties in Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Nov 16, 2008, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 36 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 16, 2008, 3:46 AM EST (08:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 16, 2008, 4:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Nov 18, 2008, 4:15 AM EST
- In force
- 36 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 nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 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 warning 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 warning went out at Nov 15, 11:47 PM EST, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 15, 11:47 PM EST, 3 hours 59 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Nov 16, 4:37 AM EST | Low Water Advisory | CLE | 13 hr | |
| Nov 16, 4:37 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | CLE | 70 hr |
Nearby
Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Ohio, 2008Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2008Every lake effect snow warning in 2008
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.