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Lake Effect Snow Warning 14, NWS Cleveland, OH

December 23, 2013Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this lake effect snow warning at Dec 23, 2013, 3:16 PM EST for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Dec 23, 2013, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 24 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 23, 2013, 3:16 PM EST (20:16 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 23, 2013, 10:00 PM EST
Expired: Dec 24, 2013, 10:00 PM EST
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH

County Erie County, PA

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake effect snow warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this lake effect snow warning went out at Dec 23, 3:15 PM EST, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 3:15 PM EST, 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 23, 12:06 PM EST, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 23, 9:30 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	CLE		36 hr
Dec 23, 11:23 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Marion, Wyandot	24 hr
Dec 23, 11:39 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Hancock, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca, Wood	24 hr
Dec 23, 3:16 PM EST	Lake Effect Snow Advisory	CLE	Ashtabula	31 hr
Dec 23, 4:08 AM EST	Lake Effect Snow Watch	CLE	Erie	11 hr
Dec 23, 11:45 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Crawford	48 hr

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2013 Every lake effect snow warning in 2013

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.