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Lake Effect Snow Advisory 3, NWS Cleveland, OH

January 29, 20178 counties in Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania

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 archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2017-01-29Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2017-01-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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, Jan 29, 3:56 AM EST, 9 hours 18 minutes before
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

Special weather statement, Jan 29, 9:46 AM EST, 3 hours 28 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 28, 9:40 PM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryCLE18 hr
Jan 29, 8:00 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLECuyahoga, Geauga, Lorain90 min
Jan 29, 9:46 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLEGeauga, Trumbull89 min
Jan 29, 12:46 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLECuyahoga, Geauga, Lake89 min

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Advisories in Ohio, 2017Lake Effect Snow Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2017Every lake effect snow advisory in 2017

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.