Alert archive / Ohio / Beach Hazards Statements in 2015
Beach Hazards Statement 6, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this beach hazards statement at Jul 15, 2015, 4:22 PM EDT for 5 counties in Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 2015, 4:22 PM EDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2015, 6:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Erie County, OH, Lake County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
253 WHUS41 KCLE 152022 CFWCLE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 422 PM EDT WED JUL 15 2015 OHZ009>012-089-PAZ001-152300- /O.EXP.KCLE.BH.S.0005.000000T0000Z-150715T2000Z/ /O.NEW.KCLE.BH.S.0006.150715T2022Z-150715T2300Z/ ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- 422 PM EDT WED JUL 15 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS EXTENDED THE BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * HAZARDS...HIGH SWIMMING RISK. * TIMING...UNTIL 7 PM. * LOCATION...FROM THE ISLANDS TO RIPLEY NY. * POTENTIAL IMPACTS...DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR FROM CURRENTS AND HIGH WAVES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SWIMMING RISK EXISTS INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE COMBINATION OF WIND AND OR WAVES WILL MAKE FOR POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS FOR SWIMMERS INCLUDING THE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTION OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES OR STAY OUT OF THE WATER. && $$ OHZ003-007-152130- /O.EXP.KCLE.BH.S.0005.000000T0000Z-150715T2000Z/ LUCAS-OTTAWA- 422 PM EDT WED JUL 15 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT HAS EXPIRED... WINDS AND WAVES HAVE DECREASED SO THAT THERE IS NO LONGER A HIGH RISK OF SWIMMING HAZARDS. $$
1 follow-up statement
670 WHUS41 KCLE 152250 CFWCLE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 650 PM EDT WED JUL 15 2015 OHZ009>012-089-PAZ001-160000- /O.CAN.KCLE.BH.S.0006.000000T0000Z-150715T2300Z/ ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- 650 PM EDT WED JUL 15 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS CANCELLED THE BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT. WAVES ARE DIMINISHING SO THE SWIM RISK FOR DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS HAS ENDED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 8:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CLE | Geauga | 4 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:19 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CLE | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.