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Lake Effect Snow Advisory 1, NWS Cleveland, OH

January 1, 2016Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this lake effect snow advisory at Jan 1, 2016, 3:53 AM EST for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jan 1, 2016, 10:18 AM EST. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 1, 2016, 3:53 AM EST (08:53 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 1, 2016, 10:18 AM EST
Expired: Jan 1, 2016, 3:27 PM EST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH

County Erie County, PA

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Dec 31, 11:34 PM EST, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 31, 11:34 PM EST, 4 hours 19 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 1, 3:27 PM EST	Lake Effect Snow Warning	CLE	Erie	6 hr

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2016 Every lake effect snow advisory in 2016

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.