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Lake Effect Snow Watch 8, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this lake effect snow watch at Dec 6, 2016, 2:36 PM EST for 4 counties in Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Dec 8, 2016, 9:00 AM EST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 6, 2016, 2:36 PM EST (19:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 8, 2016, 9:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 8, 2016, 2:42 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1186 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 334 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 Dec 6, 12:13 PM EST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 6, 12:13 PM EST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 3:57 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | CLE | 4 days |
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.