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Coastal Flood Statement 9, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 30, 20115 counties in Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this coastal flood statement at Sep 30, 2011, 5:08 AM EDT for 5 counties in Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 30, 2011, 5:08 AM EDT (09:08 UTC)
Expired
Sep 30, 2011, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH

Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Erie County, OH, Lake County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Erie County, PA

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 181 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2011-09-30Temperature 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2011-09-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 277 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
983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
277 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

964 
WHUS41 KCLE 300908
CFWCLE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
508 AM EDT FRI SEP 30 2011

OHZ009>012-089-PAZ001-301715-
/O.NEW.KCLE.CF.S.0009.110930T0908Z-111001T0000Z/
ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-
508 AM EDT FRI SEP 30 2011

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

* THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE SOUTH SHORE OF
  LAKE ERIE FROM VERMILION TO RIPLEY NEW YORK THROUGH 8 PM THIS
  EVENING. THERE IS A RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

* WEST WINDS TO 40 KNOTS WILL GENERATE WAVES 10 TO 14 FEET BY THIS
  AFTERNOON AND BECOME NORTHWEST. 

* SWIMMERS IN LAKE ERIE NEED TO BE ALERT FOR RIP CURRENTS TODAY. 
  THE HIGH WAVE ACTION AND RIP CURRENT RISK CAN BE DANGEROUS EVEN 
  FOR GOOD SWIMMERS.

* TODAY WILL BE THE LAST DAY FOR THE RIP CURRENT STATEMENTS. RIP
  CURRENT STATEMENTS WILL RESUME AGAIN IN THE SPRING.


$$

LOMBARDY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 30, 4:28 AM EDTFlood WatchCLEAshland, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga, Huron, Lake and 6 more34 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in Ohio, 2011Coastal Flood Statements in Pennsylvania, 2011Every coastal flood statement in 2011

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.