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Winter Weather Advisory 4, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 24, 2016, 3:31 PM EST for 8 counties in Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 24, 2016, 6:00 PM EST. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2016, 3:31 PM EST (20:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2016, 6:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2016, 6:00 AM EST
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Lake County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Wood County, OH, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 447 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather 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 winter weather advisory went out at Feb 23, 6:15 PM EST, 21 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 6:15 PM EST, 21 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 23, 4:08 PM EST, 23 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 408 PM EST TUE FEB 23 2016 OHZ003-006>008-017-018-027-240915- LUCAS-WOOD-OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-HANCOCK-SENECA-WYANDOT- 408 PM EST TUE FEB 23 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE UP THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TO NORTHERN OHIO...BRINGING A PERIOD OF RAIN FOLLOWED BY A CHANGE OVER TO SNOW BETWEEN WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THE CHANGE OVER TO SNOW IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT WILL BE 3 TO 4 INCHES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1.2 INCHES TO 1.5 INCHES ON WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY EVENING WILL CAUSE CREEKS AND STREAMS TO RUN HIGH. THERE MAY BE SOME MINOR FLOODING PROBLEMS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE CRITICAL TO THE FORECAST SNOWFALL AMOUNTS. RIGHT NOW TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO BE NEAR FREEZING. GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS TO 35 MPH WILL OCCUR WEDNESDAY...SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST THURSDAY. MAKE SURE TO KEEP CURRENT WITH THE LATEST FORECAST UPDATES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ009>014-019>023-028>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-240915- ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-GEAUGA-ASHTABULA INLAND-HURON-MEDINA- SUMMIT-PORTAGE-TRUMBULL-CRAWFORD-RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE-STARK- MAHONING-MARION-MORROW-HOLMES-KNOX-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- SOUTHERN ERIE-CRAWFORD PA- 408 PM EST TUE FEB 23 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE UP THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TO NORTHERN OHIO...BRINGING A PERIOD OF RAIN FOLLOWED BY A CHANGEOVER TO SNOW BETWEEN WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THE CHANGEOVER TO SNOW IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE FROM 3 TO 4 INCHES WITH LOCALLY UP TO 6 INCHES FOR PORTIONS OF THE SNOW BELT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1.3 INCHES TO 1.6 INCHES ON WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY EVENING WILL CAUSE CREEKS AND STREAMS TO RUN HIGH. THERE MAY BE SOME MINOR FLOODING PROBLEMS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE CRITICAL TO THE FORECAST SNOWFALL AMOUNTS. RIGHT NOW TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO BE NEAR FREEZING. GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS TO 35 MPH WILL BE LIKELY THURSDAY. MAKE SURE TO KEEP CURRENT WITH THE LATEST FORECAST UPDATES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LEZ142>148-162>168-240915- MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH OH-RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH- THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH-VERMILION TO AVON POINT OH- AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK OH-WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE LAKE OH-GENEVA- ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM VERMILION TO AVON POINT- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT- 408 PM EST TUE FEB 23 2016 ...GALE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. GALE WATCH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LEZ061-149-169-240915- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RIPLEY TO BUFFALO NY- CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY- 408 PM EST TUE FEB 23 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OUDEMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 3:22 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CLE | Erie, Huron, Lorain, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 4:23 AM EST | Gale Warning | CLE | 12 hr | |
| Feb 24, 1:38 PM EST | River Flood Warning | CLE | Lake | 33 hr |
| Feb 24, 2:00 PM EST | River Flood Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 41 hr |
| Feb 24, 4:17 PM EST | River Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 21 hr |
Nearby
Winter Weather Advisories in Ohio, 2016Winter Weather Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2016Every winter weather advisory 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.