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Lake Effect Snow Watch 2, NWS Cleveland, OH

January 29, 20134 counties in Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this lake effect snow watch at Jan 29, 2013, 9:58 PM EST for 4 counties in Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jan 31, 2013, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 29, 2013, 9:58 PM EST (02:58 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 31, 2013, 6:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 30, 2013, 3:59 PM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH

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

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:01 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 342 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake effect snow watch 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 watch went out at Jan 29, 7:08 PM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 29, 7:08 PM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 29, 4:32 PM EST, 5 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 29, 9:02 PM EST, 56 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
Jan 30, 3:43 AM EST	Wind Advisory	CLE	Ashland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 22 more	6 hr
Jan 30, 4:13 AM EST	Gale Warning	CLE		42 hr
Jan 30, 8:07 AM EST	River Flood Warning	CLE	Lake	36 hr
Jan 30, 3:53 PM EST	Lake Effect Snow Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake	54 hr
Jan 29, 10:07 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Erie	113 min
Jan 30, 11:11 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Crawford	12 hr

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Watches in Ohio, 2013 Lake Effect Snow Watches in Pennsylvania, 2013 Every lake effect snow watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.