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Lake Effect Snow Advisory 8, NWS Cleveland, OH
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.
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, 8.1 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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 2:46 AM EST | Lake Effect Snow Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 42 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:46 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | CLE | Ashland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 22 more | 45 hr |
| Feb 12, 10:02 AM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Warning | CLE | 41 hr | |
| Feb 12, 4:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Erie, Huron, Sandusky, Wood | 47 min |
| Feb 12, 5:10 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake | 65 min |
| Feb 12, 5:32 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina | 58 min |
| Feb 12, 6:08 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Ashland, Marion, Morrow, Richland, Wayne | 52 min |
| Feb 12, 6:21 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga, Portage, Summit, Trumbull | 69 min |
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.