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Lake Effect Snow Advisory 3, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this lake effect snow advisory at Jan 29, 2017, 1:14 PM EST for 8 counties in Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 29, 2017, 1:14 PM EST (18:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 30, 2017, 12:54 PM EST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Medina County, OH, Portage County, OH, Summit County, OH, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 664 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 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 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 lake effect snow advisory went out at Jan 29, 1:10 PM EST, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 29, 1:10 PM EST, 4 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 356 AM EST SUN JAN 29 2017 OHZ003-006>011-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-300900- LUCAS-WOOD-OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-HANCOCK-SENECA-HURON- MEDINA-SUMMIT-PORTAGE-TRUMBULL-WYANDOT-CRAWFORD-RICHLAND-ASHLAND- WAYNE-STARK-MAHONING-MARION-MORROW-HOLMES-KNOX- 356 AM EST SUN JAN 29 2017 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA LATE TODAY CAUSING AREAS OF SNOW TO DEVELOP. AROUND AN INCH OF ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. LOW PRESSURE WILL PASS TO THE NORTH OF THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY. SNOW ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LOW WILL DEVELOP MONDAY EVENING AND CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY. ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE FROM AN INCH OR TWO ALONG THE I-75 CORRIDOR TO A FEW INCHES EAST OF I-71. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ012>014-089-PAZ001>003-300900- LAKE-GEAUGA-ASHTABULA INLAND-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- SOUTHERN ERIE-CRAWFORD- 356 AM EST SUN JAN 29 2017 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA LATE TODAY CAUSING AREAS OF SNOW TO DEVELOP. UNTIL THEN LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE. A FEW INCHES OF ACCUMULATION ARE POSSIBLE BY DAYBREAK TUESDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. LOW PRESSURE WILL PASS TO THE NORTH OF THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY. SNOW ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LOW WILL DEVELOP MONDAY EVENING AND CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY. LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS WILL DEVELOP BEHIND THE LOW ON TUESDAY. SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW COULD FALL FROM MONDAY EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LEZ061-142>149-162>169-300900- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RIPLEY TO BUFFALO NY- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH OH- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM VERMILION TO AVON POINT OH- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK OH- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE LAKE OH- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT OH- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM VERMILION TO AVON POINT OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT OH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY- 356 AM EST SUN JAN 29 2017 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 9:40 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | CLE | 18 hr | |
| Jan 29, 8:00 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lorain | 90 min |
| Jan 29, 9:46 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Geauga, Trumbull | 89 min |
| Jan 29, 12:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake | 89 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.