Alert archive / Ohio / Lake Effect Snow Advisories in 2015
Lake Effect Snow Advisory 1, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this lake effect snow advisory at Jan 4, 2015, 3:26 PM EST for Ashtabula County, Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jan 4, 2015, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 4, 2015, 3:26 PM EST (20:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 4, 2015, 10:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2015, 9:30 PM EST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 492 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 530 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake effect snow advisory 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 advisory went out at Jan 4, 12:30 PM EST, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 4, 12:30 PM EST, 2 hours 56 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 4, 5:15 AM EST, 10 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 515 AM EST SUN JAN 4 2015 OHZ003-006>010-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-051015- LUCAS-WOOD-OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-LORAIN-HANCOCK-SENECA-HURON- MEDINA-SUMMIT-PORTAGE-TRUMBULL-WYANDOT-CRAWFORD-RICHLAND-ASHLAND- WAYNE-STARK-MAHONING-MARION-MORROW-HOLMES-KNOX- 515 AM EST SUN JAN 4 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. WINDS GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SNOW LATE MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY WILL LIKELY ACCUMULATE SEVERAL INCHES. VERY COLD WEATHER IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY WITH WIND CHILLS BELOW ZERO. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LEZ142-162-051015- MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH- 515 AM EST SUN JAN 4 2015 ...LOW WATER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM EST MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. LOW WATER ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LEZ061-145>149-165>169-051015- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RIPLEY TO BUFFALO NY- 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 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- 515 AM EST SUN JAN 4 2015 ...GALE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM EST MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. GALE WARNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LEZ143-144-163-164-051015- RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH-THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION- 515 AM EST SUN JAN 4 2015 ...GALE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM EST MONDAY... ...LOW WATER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM EST MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. LOW WATER ADVISORY. GALE WARNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ011>014-089-PAZ001>003-051015- CUYAHOGA-LAKE-GEAUGA-ASHTABULA INLAND-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE- NORTHERN ERIE-SOUTHERN ERIE-CRAWFORD PA- 515 AM EST SUN JAN 4 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. WINDS GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE FROM LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH ABOUT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SNOW LATE MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY WILL LIKELY ACCUMULATE SEVERAL INCHES. SIGNIFICANT LAKE EFFECT SNOW IS POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY INTO EARLY THURSDAY. VERY COLD WEATHER IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY WITH WIND CHILLS BELOW ZERO. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 4:46 AM EST | Low Water Advisory | CLE | 23 hr | |
| Jan 4, 4:46 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | CLE | 4 days | |
| Jan 4, 10:48 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CLE | Lake | 12 hr |
| Jan 4, 2:38 PM EST | River Flood Warning | CLE | Lorain | 16 hr |
| Jan 4, 2:38 PM EST | River Flood Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 25 hr |
| Jan 4, 3:26 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | CLE | Ashland, Crawford, Hancock, Holmes, Knox, Marion and 5 more | 12 hr |
Nearby
Lake Effect Snow Advisories in Ohio, 2015Lake Effect Snow Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2015Every lake effect snow advisory in 2015
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.