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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH

January 13, 2016Ashtabula County, Lake County, Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Jan 13, 2016, 6:55 AM EST for Ashtabula County, Lake County, Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 95 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2016, 6:55 AM EST (11:55 UTC)
Expired: Jan 13, 2016, 8:30 AM EST
In force: 95 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH

Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Lake County, OH, Erie County, PA

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1123 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jan 13, 6:29 AM EST, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 6:29 AM EST, 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 13, 4:13 AM EST, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 13, 2:37 AM EST, 4 hours 18 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
237 AM EST WED JAN 13 2016

OHZ012>014-089-130900-
ASHTABULA INLAND-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-GEAUGA-LAKE-
237 AM EST WED JAN 13 2016

...SNOW SQUALLS WILL AFFECT LAKE...ASHTABULA AND NORTHERN GEAUGA
COUNTIES...

AT 235 AM...LAKE EFFECT SNOW SQUALLS CONTINUE TO WOBBLE ACROSS
LAKE...GEAUGA AND ASHTABULA COUNTIES. THE HEAVIEST BAND OF SNOW WAS
MOVING ACROSS LAKE COUNTY INTO NORTHERN GEAUGA COUNTY. THIS BAND OF
SNOW MAY PRODUCE SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. WINDS ARE
ALSO GUSTING BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH WHICH WILL CAUSE BLOWING AND
DRIFTING OF THE SNOW.

USE EXTRA CAUTION IF YOU MUST TRAVEL INTO OR THROUGH THESE LAKE
EFFECT SNOW SQUALLS. RAPID CHANGES IN VISIBILITY AND POTENTIALLY
SLICK ROADS MAY LEAD TO ACCIDENTS. CONSIDER DELAYING TRAVEL UNTIL
THE SQUALL PASSES YOUR LOCATION.

LAT...LON 4150 8052 4150 8100 4156 8139 4157 8140
      4157 8149 4164 8149 4176 8129 4176 8124
      4186 8100 4187 8090 4191 8080 4198 8053
TIME...MOT...LOC 0731Z 180DEG 0KT 4168 8116

MULLEN

Special weather statement, Jan 13, 4:10 AM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
410 AM EST WED JAN 13 2016

OHZ012>014-089-131045-
ASHTABULA INLAND-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-GEAUGA-LAKE-
410 AM EST WED JAN 13 2016

...SNOW SQUALL WILL AFFECT LAKE...ASHTABULA AND NORTHERN GEAUGA
COUNTIES FOR THE MORNING COMMUTE...

AT 407 AM EST...LAKE EFFECT SNOW SQUALLS CONTINUE TO WOBBLE ACROSS
LAKE...GEAUGA AND ASHTABULA COUNTIES. THE HEAVIEST COUPLE OF BANDS
OF SNOW WERE MOVING ACROSS LAKE COUNTY INTO NORTHERN GEAUGA COUNTY.
THESE BANDS OF SNOW MAY PRODUCE SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER
HOUR. WINDS ARE ALSO GUSTING BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH WHICH WILL CAUSE
BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW.

USE EXTRA CAUTION IF YOU MUST TRAVEL INTO OR THROUGH THESE LAKE
EFFECT SNOW SQUALLS. RAPID CHANGES IN VISIBILITY AND POTENTIALLY
SLICK ROADS MAY LEAD TO ACCIDENTS. CONSIDER DELAYING TRAVEL UNTIL
THE SQUALL PASSES YOUR LOCATION.

LAT...LON 4150 8052 4150 8100 4156 8139 4157 8140
      4157 8149 4164 8149 4176 8129 4176 8124
      4186 8100 4187 8090 4191 8080 4198 8053
TIME...MOT...LOC 0907Z 180DEG 0KT 4168 8116

MULLEN

Special weather statement, Jan 13, 5:34 AM EST, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 13, 6:55 AM EST, 0 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 12, 9:44 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	CLE		6 hr
Jan 13, 2:37 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Ashtabula	83 min
Jan 13, 3:41 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	CLE		30 hr
Jan 13, 4:10 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Ashtabula	95 min
Jan 13, 5:34 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Ashtabula	86 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Ohio, 2016 Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2016 Every special weather statement 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.