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Lake Effect Snow Advisory 8, NWS Cleveland, OH

February 12, 2016Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this lake effect snow advisory at Feb 12, 2016, 3:03 PM EST for Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio. It took effect at Feb 12, 2016, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 12, 2016, 3:03 PM EST (20:03 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 12, 2016, 4:00 PM EST
Expired
Feb 13, 2016, 3:26 PM EST
In force
23 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH

Counties Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 163 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2016-02-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2016-02-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Feb 12, 12:48 PM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 12:48 PM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 12, 2:46 AM ESTLake Effect Snow WarningCLEAshtabula42 hr
Feb 12, 2:46 AM ESTWind Chill AdvisoryCLEAshland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 22 more45 hr
Feb 12, 10:02 AM ESTHeavy Freezing Spray WarningCLE41 hr
Feb 12, 4:43 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLEErie, Huron, Sandusky, Wood47 min
Feb 12, 5:10 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLEAshtabula, Geauga, Lake65 min
Feb 12, 5:32 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLECuyahoga, Lorain, Medina58 min
Feb 12, 6:08 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLEAshland, Marion, Morrow, Richland, Wayne52 min
Feb 12, 6:21 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLEAshtabula, Geauga, Portage, Summit, Trumbull69 min

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Advisories in Ohio, 2016Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.