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Wind Chill Advisory 2, NWS Cleveland, OH

February 9, 20115 counties in Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 9, 2011, 4:06 AM EST for 5 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 9, 2011, 4:06 AM EST (09:06 UTC)
Expired: Feb 9, 2011, 10:00 AM EST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH

Counties Erie County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 141 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1167 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

519 
WWUS41 KCLE 090906
WSWCLE

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
406 AM EST WED FEB 9 2011

OHZ003-006>009-091500-
/O.NEW.KCLE.WC.Y.0002.110209T0906Z-110209T1500Z/
LUCAS-WOOD-OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TOLEDO...BOWLING GREEN...PORT CLINTON...
FREMONT...SANDUSKY
406 AM EST WED FEB 9 2011

...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS MORNING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A WIND CHILL
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS MORNING. 

TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER TO MID SINGLE DIGITS AND WINDS 10 TO 15
MPH THIS MORNING...ESPECIALLY CLOSER TO THE LAKE ERIE SHORE...WILL
ALLOW FOR WIND CHILLS TO RANGE BETWEEN 10 AND 15 DEGREES BELOW
ZERO.

TEMPERATURES WILL RISE THIS MORNING...BUT WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED
TO INCREASE A BIT THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON. WHILE WIND CHILLS
VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO IMPROVE ABOVE ADVISORY CRITERIA...VALUES
MAY CONTINUE TO RANGE ONLY AROUND ZERO DEGREES THROUGH THE
REMAINDER OF THE DAY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN STRONG WIND WILL COMBINE
WITH COLD TEMPERATURES TO CREATE DANGEROUSLY COLD CONDITIONS FOR
EXPOSED SKIN. THE WIND WILL MAKE IT FEEL LIKE IT IS 15 DEGREES
BELOW ZERO OR COLDER FOR A PERIOD OF SEVERAL HOURS. IF YOU WILL
BE OUTDOORS USE COMMON SENSE AND DRESS WARMLY...MAKING SURE THAT
ALL EXPOSED SKIN IS COVERED. IF POSSIBLE...AVOID PROLONGED
EXPOSURE TO THE COLD TO PREVENT FROSTBITE AND HYPOTHERMIA. STAY
TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER
DETAILS OR UPDATES.

&&

$$

ABE

1 follow-up statement

085 
WWUS41 KCLE 091507
WSWCLE

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1007 AM EST WED FEB 9 2011


OHZ003-006>009-091615-
/O.EXP.KCLE.WC.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-110209T1500Z/
LUCAS-WOOD-OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TOLEDO...BOWLING GREEN...PORT CLINTON...
FREMONT...SANDUSKY
1007 AM EST WED FEB 9 2011

...WIND CHILL ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED...

THE WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 

WIND CHILL TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY MODERATE TODAY.
WIND CHILL READINGS TODAY WILL BE IN SINGLE DIGITS...MAINLY BELOW ZERO.
PEOPLE SPENDING TIME OUTSIDE NEED TO DRESS APPROPRIATELY TO AVOID
GETTING FROSTBITE.

$$

KIELTYKA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 9, 4:23 AM EST	Gale Warning	CLE		6 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in Ohio, 2011 Every wind chill advisory 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.