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Areal Flood Warning 7, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this areal flood warning at Feb 3, 2014, 1:26 AM EST for Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 8 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
- Feb 3, 2014, 1:26 AM EST (06:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2014, 9:04 AM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Erie County, OH, Lorain County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:26 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 (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 227 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 94 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood 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 areal flood warning went out at Feb 2, 11:18 PM EST, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 2, 11:18 PM EST, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 2, 3:32 PM EST, 9 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 332 PM EST SUN FEB 2 2014 OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-032045- LUCAS-WOOD-OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-GEAUGA- ASHTABULA INLAND-HANCOCK-SENECA-HURON-MEDINA-SUMMIT-PORTAGE-TRUMBULL- WYANDOT-CRAWFORD-RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE-STARK-MAHONING-MARION-MORROW- HOLMES-KNOX-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-SOUTHERN ERIE- CRAWFORD PA- 332 PM EST SUN FEB 2 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHEAST OHIO...NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER LOW AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP OVER TEXAS EARLY TUESDAY AND MOVE UP THE OHIO VALLEY TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. WINTRY PRECIPITATION ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LOW WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE LOCAL AREA LATE TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY EVENING. PERIODS OF SNOW ARE THEN EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF WEDNESDAY MORNING. RIGHT NOW IT APPEARS THAT ALL OF THE PRECIPITATION WILL FALL AS SNOW...BUT SLIGHT CHANGES IN THE TRACK OF THE LOW COULD AFFECT PRECIPITATION TYPES AND AMOUNTS. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME QUITE GUSTY AS WELL AND THIS WILL CAUSE SIGNIFICANT BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF ANY SNOW THAT FALLS. PLEASE MONITOR THIS SITUATION AS IT DEVELOPS FOR POSSIBLE STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS EVENT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LEZ061-142>149-162>169-032045- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RIPLEY TO BUFFALO NY- MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH OH-RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH- THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH-VERMILION TO AVON POINT OH- AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK OH-WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE LAKE OH-GENEVA- ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT OH-CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM VERMILION TO AVON POINT- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY- 332 PM EST SUN FEB 2 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER LOW AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER LOW AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 2, 8:16 PM EST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Feb 2, 9:43 PM EST, 3 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
943 PM EST SUN FEB 02 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0700 PM SNOW MEADVILLE 41.66N 80.14W
02/02/2014 M2.2 INCH CRAWFORD PA SNOW SPOTTER
24 HOUR SNOWFALL.
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EVENT NUMBER CLE1400693
THOMPSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 3:19 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | CLE | Ashland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 22 more | 12 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:16 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 22 more | 48 hr |
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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.