Alert archive / Ohio / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 11, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this wind advisory at Dec 24, 2008, 6:43 PM EST for 4 counties in Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 24, 2008, 6:43 PM EST (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2008, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 732 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 830 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS71 KCLE 242343 NPWCLE URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 643 PM EST WED DEC 24 2008 OHZ011>014-089-PAZ001-002-250445- /O.NEW.KCLE.WI.Y.0011.081224T2343Z-081225T0500Z/ CUYAHOGA-LAKE-GEAUGA-ASHTABULA INLAND-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE- NORTHERN ERIE-SOUTHERN ERIE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLEVELAND...MENTOR...CHARDON... JEFFERSON...ASHTABULA...ERIE...EDINBORO 643 PM EST WED DEC 24 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT. A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVED ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING...AS A RESULT...FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS WINDS NEAR THE LAKE SHORE EAST OF CLEVELAND WILL BE WESTERLY AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. WINDS WILL DECREASE QUICKLY AFTER MIDNIGHT AS THE FRONT MOVES EAST OF THE AREA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 AND OTHER RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. && $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS71 KCLE 250508 NPWCLE URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1208 AM EST THU DEC 25 2008 OHZ011>014-089-PAZ001-002-250615- /O.EXP.KCLE.WI.Y.0011.000000T0000Z-081225T0500Z/ CUYAHOGA-LAKE-GEAUGA-ASHTABULA INLAND-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE- NORTHERN ERIE-SOUTHERN ERIE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLEVELAND...MENTOR...CHARDON... JEFFERSON...ASHTABULA...ERIE...EDINBORO 1208 AM EST THU DEC 25 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. GUSTY WEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH OVERNIGHT. WHILE OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE...THE STRONGEST WINDS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD CONTINUE TO USE CAUTION IF TRAVELING OVERNIGHT. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 4:34 AM EST | Gale Warning | CLE | 26 hr |
Nearby
Wind Advisories in Ohio, 2008Wind Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2008Every wind advisory 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.