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Beach Hazards Statement 12, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this beach hazards statement at Jul 18, 2016, 3:47 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania; Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2016, 3:47 PM EDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2016, 9:59 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 1403 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 7.7
The text
As transmitted.
855 WHUS41 KCLE 181947 CFWCLE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 347 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2016 OHZ089-PAZ001-190200- /O.NEW.KCLE.BH.S.0012.160718T1947Z-160719T0200Z/ ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- 347 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * HAZARDS...HIGH SWIMMING RISK * TIMING...THROUGH 10PM THIS EVENING * LOCATION...BEACHES OFF ASHTABULA AND ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN SWIMMING RISKS EXIST FROM A COMBINATION OF WIND AND LARGE WAVES INCLUDING RIP CURRENTS AND LONGSHORE CURRENTS. THESE SWIMMING RISKS CAN CREATE LIFE- THREATENING CONDITIONS EVEN FOR GOOD SWIMMERS. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTION OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES OR STAY OUT OF THE WATER. && $$
1 follow-up statement
004 WHUS41 KCLE 190159 CFWCLE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 959 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2016 OHZ089-PAZ001-190300- /O.CAN.KCLE.BH.S.0012.000000T0000Z-160719T0200Z/ ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- 959 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS CANCELLED THE BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN SWIMMING RISKS EXIST FROM A COMBINATION OF WIND AND LARGE WAVES INCLUDING RIP CURRENTS AND LONGSHORE CURRENTS. THESE SWIMMING RISKS CAN CREATE LIFE- THREATENING CONDITIONS EVEN FOR GOOD SWIMMERS. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTION OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES OR STAY OUT OF THE WATER. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 4:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 28 min |
| Jul 18, 4:11 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Jul 18, 4:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Wood | 44 min |
| Jul 18, 4:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 42 min |
| Jul 18, 4:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 33 min |
| Jul 18, 4:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Seneca, Wyandot | 42 min |
| Jul 18, 5:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 41 min |
| Jul 18, 5:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 56 min |
| Jul 18, 6:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 20 min |
| Jul 18, 3:44 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CLE | 6 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.