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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Cleveland, OH

January 17, 2012Ashtabula County, Cuyahoga County, Lake County, Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this wind advisory at Jan 17, 2012, 3:12 PM EST for Ashtabula County, Cuyahoga County, Lake County, Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 17, 2012, 3:12 PM EST (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Jan 17, 2012, 10:10 PM EST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH

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

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 565 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 544 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.

811 
WWUS71 KCLE 172012
NPWCLE

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
312 PM EST TUE JAN 17 2012

OHZ011-012-089-PAZ001-180500-
/O.NEW.KCLE.WI.Y.0001.120117T2012Z-120118T0500Z/
CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLEVELAND...MENTOR...ASHTABULA...ERIE
312 PM EST TUE JAN 17 2012

...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. 

* WINDS...WEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH.

* TIMING...WITH THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT LATE THIS AFTERNOON
  AND EVENING.

* IMPACTS...LOOSE OBJECTS WILL BE BLOWN AROUND AND SOME LIMBS OR A
  FEW POWER LINES COULD COME DOWN.

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
FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES.

&&

$$

OUDEMAN

1 follow-up statement

711 
WWUS71 KCLE 180310
NPWCLE

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1010 PM EST TUE JAN 17 2012

OHZ011-012-089-PAZ001-180415-
/O.CAN.KCLE.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-120118T0500Z/
CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLEVELAND...MENTOR...ASHTABULA...ERIE
1010 PM EST TUE JAN 17 2012

...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS CANCELLED THE WIND
ADVISORY FOR THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES FROM CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN
NORTHEAST OHIO TO ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA.

THE STRONGEST WINDS HAVE SHIFTED EAST OF THE AREA AND WINDS WILL
CONTINUE TO SLOWLY DECREASE OVERNIGHT.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 17, 4:23 AM EST	Gale Warning	CLE		24 hr
Jan 17, 2:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	23 min
Jan 17, 4:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga, Lake	47 min
Jan 17, 4:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga, Portage, Summit	49 min
Jan 17, 4:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	43 min
Jan 17, 5:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Mahoning, Portage, Trumbull	59 min
Jan 17, 5:04 PM EST	River Flood Warning	CLE	Lorain	15 hr
Jan 17, 6:48 AM EST	Lake Effect Snow Watch	CLE	Crawford, Erie	8 hr
Jan 17, 3:14 PM EST	Lake Effect Snow Advisory	CLE	Crawford, Erie	20 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Ohio, 2012 Wind Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2012 Every wind advisory in 2012

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.