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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH

December 9, 2016Geauga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Dec 9, 2016, 3:02 AM EST for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 58 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
Dec 9, 2016, 3:02 AM EST (08:02 UTC)
Expired
Dec 9, 2016, 4:00 AM EST
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH

County Geauga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2016-12-09Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2016-12-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
111 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 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 Dec 8, 11:55 PM EST, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 8, 11:55 PM EST, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 8, 6:18 PM EST, 8 hours 44 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 8, 9:30 PM EST, 5 hours 32 minutes before
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Local storm report, Dec 8, 9:46 PM EST, 5 hours 16 minutes before
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Local storm report, Dec 9, 12:08 AM EST, 2 hours 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1208 AM EST FRI DEC 09 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1038 PM     SNOW             MEADVILLE               41.65N  80.14W
12/08/2016  M2.0 INCH        CRAWFORD           PA   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

1107 PM     SNOW             JEFFERSON 2NW           41.76N  80.81W
12/08/2016  M3.5 INCH        ASHTABULA          OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

&&

SEFCOVIC
Special weather statement, Dec 9, 1:53 AM EST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
153 AM EST FRI DEC 9 2016

OHZ012>014-089-090800-
ASHTABULA INLAND OH-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE OH-GEAUGA OH-LAKE OH-
153 AM EST FRI DEC 9 2016

...AN INTENSE SNOW SQUALL WILL AFFECT LAKE...SOUTHERN ASHTABULA AND
NORTHEASTERN GEAUGA COUNTIES UNTIL 300 AM EST...

AT 152 AM EST, RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE SNOW SQUALL NEAR PERRY, OR
7 MILES EAST OF PAINESVILLE, MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
VISIBILITY RAPIDLY DROPPING TO LESS THAN A QUARTER OF A MILE...
UP TO 2 INCHES OF QUICK SNOW ACCUMULATION...

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PAINESVILLE, CHARDON, FAIRPORT HARBOR, MENTOR, WILLOUGHBY, EASTLAKE,
GENEVA, MADISON, PERRY, ORWELL, MENTOR-ON-THE-LAKE, HUNTSBURG,
MONTVILLE, HARTSGROVE, ROAMING SHORES, CHERRY VALLEY, NORTH PERRY,
THOMPSON, KIRTLAND HILLS AND ROCK CREEK.

USE EXTRA CAUTION IF YOU MUST TRAVEL INTO OR THROUGH THIS SNOW
SQUALL. RAPID CHANGES IN VISIBILITY AND POTENTIALLY SLICK ROADS ARE
LIKELY TO LEAD TO ACCIDENTS. CONSIDER DELAYING TRAVEL UNTIL THE
SQUALL PASSES YOUR LOCATION.

LAT...LON 4150 8052 4150 8100 4169 8146 4185 8100
TIME...MOT...LOC 0652Z 301DEG 16KT 4171 8111

&&

ODOT DMS  315 AND 326.

MULLEN
Special weather statement, Dec 9, 3:02 AM EST, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
302 AM EST FRI DEC 9 2016

OHZ012>014-023-090900-
TRUMBULL OH-ASHTABULA INLAND OH-GEAUGA OH-LAKE OH-
302 AM EST FRI DEC 9 2016

...AN INTENSE SNOW SQUALL WILL AFFECT LAKE...NORTHERN TRUMBULL...
SOUTHERN ASHTABULA AND NORTHEASTERN GEAUGA COUNTIES UNTIL 400 AM
EST...

AT 300 AM EST, RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE SNOW SQUALL BAND FROM NEAR
MENTOR TO NORTHEAST OF CHARDON TO ORWELL, MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
VISIBILITY RAPIDLY DROPPING TO LESS THAN A QUARTER OF A MILE...
UP TO 2 INCHES OF QUICK SNOW ACCUMULATION...

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PAINESVILLE, WILLOWICK, CHARDON, FAIRPORT HARBOR, MENTOR, WILLOUGHBY,
EASTLAKE, MADISON, MIDDLEFIELD, KINSMAN, NORTH BLOOMFIELD, PERRY,
ORWELL, BURTON, TIMBERLAKE, WEST FARMINGTON, LAKELINE, WICKLIFFE,
WILLOUGHBY HILLS AND MENTOR-ON-THE-LAKE.

USE EXTRA CAUTION IF YOU MUST TRAVEL INTO OR THROUGH THIS SNOW
SQUALL. RAPID CHANGES IN VISIBILITY AND POTENTIALLY SLICK ROADS ARE
LIKELY TO LEAD TO ACCIDENTS. CONSIDER DELAYING TRAVEL UNTIL THE
SQUALL PASSES YOUR LOCATION.

LAT...LON 4172 8100 4171 8107 4150 8052 4138 8052
      4138 8100 4157 8138 4157 8148 4163 8149
      4163 8150 4172 8140 4178 8124 4177 8121
      4186 8101
TIME...MOT...LOC 0800Z 300DEG 19KT 4166 8121

&&

ODOT DMS  314, 315, AND 326.

MULLEN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 8, 7:50 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLEAshtabula, Geauga, Lake115 min
Dec 9, 1:53 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLELake67 min
Dec 9, 4:59 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLECuyahoga, Geauga61 min
Dec 9, 6:07 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLECuyahoga, Geauga, Lake53 min
Dec 9, 6:57 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLECuyahoga, Geauga, Lake93 min
Dec 9, 8:58 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLEGeauga, Lake62 min
Dec 9, 10:00 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLEAshtabula, Geauga, Lake90 min
Dec 9, 11:28 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLEAshtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Trumbull2 hr
Dec 9, 2:57 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLECuyahoga, Geauga, Lake2 hr
Dec 9, 5:12 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLEAshtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake108 min
Dec 9, 5:26 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLEErie64 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Ohio, 2016Every 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.