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Coastal Flood Statement 2, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this coastal flood statement at Aug 15, 2011, 4:14 AM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 2011, 4:14 AM EDT (08:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2011, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Erie County, OH, Lorain County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 535 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
520 WHUS41 KCLE 150814 CFWCLE LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 414 AM EDT MON AUG 15 2011 OHZ009>011-151600- /O.NEW.KCLE.CF.S.0002.110815T0814Z-110816T0000Z/ ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA- 414 AM EDT MON AUG 15 2011 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THIS EVENING... NORTH WINDS OF 10 TO 20 KNOTS TODAY WILL CAUSE WAVES OF 4 TO 6 FEET AND A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE SHORE OF LAKE ERIE. A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS MEANS THAT RIP CURRENTS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP AND WILL BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE LIFE THREATENING TO ANYONE ENTERING THE LAKE. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND LOCAL OFFICIALS. PAY ATTENTION TO POSTED SIGNS AND FLAGS. $$ OUDEMAN
1 follow-up statement
747 WHUS41 KCLE 151340 CFWCLE LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 940 AM EDT MON AUG 15 2011 OHZ009>011-152145- /O.CON.KCLE.CF.S.0002.000000T0000Z-110816T0000Z/ ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA- 940 AM EDT MON AUG 15 2011 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THIS EVENING... NORTH WINDS OF 10 TO 20 KNOTS THIS AFTERNOON WILL CAUSE WAVES OF 4 TO 6 FEET AND A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE SHORE OF LAKE ERIE. A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS MEANS THAT RIP CURRENTS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP AND WILL BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE LIFE THREATENING TO ANYONE ENTERING THE LAKE. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND LOCAL OFFICIALS. PAY ATTENTION TO POSTED SIGNS AND FLAGS. $$ GARNET
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 3:26 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Lake | 6 hr |
| Aug 15, 6:20 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | CLE | Lake | 6 hr |
| Aug 15, 8:19 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Medina | 5 hr |
| Aug 15, 10:11 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CLE | Ashtabula, Portage, Trumbull | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.