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Lake Effect Snow Watch 7, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this lake effect snow watch at Nov 18, 2016, 2:56 PM EST for Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Nov 19, 2016, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 18, 2016, 2:56 PM EST (19:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 19, 2016, 4:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Nov 19, 2016, 12:18 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 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 watch 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 watch went out at Nov 18, 12:18 PM EST, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 18, 12:18 PM EST, 2 hours 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 2:53 PM EST | Gale Warning | CLE | 3 days |
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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.