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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH

January 6, 2017Ashtabula County, Lake County, Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Jan 6, 2017, 4:35 AM EST for Ashtabula County, Lake County, Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 115 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 6, 2017, 4:35 AM EST (09:35 UTC)
Expired: Jan 6, 2017, 6:30 AM EST
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH

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

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:37 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 101 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 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 6, 3:33 AM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 6, 3:33 AM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 5, 11:34 PM EST, 5 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1134 PM EST THU JAN 05 2017

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

1123 PM     SNOW             PAINESVILLE             41.75N  81.19W
01/05/2017  M2.0 INCH        LAKE               OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

&&

SEFCOVIC

Local storm report, Jan 6, 12:03 AM EST, 4 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1203 AM EST FRI JAN 06 2017

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

1115 PM     SNOW             EUCLID                  41.62N  81.49W
01/05/2017  M4.0 INCH        CUYAHOGA           OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            6 HOUR SNOWFALL. 4 INCHES OF NEW SNOW FROM 7PM TO 11PM.

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SEFCOVIC

Local storm report, Jan 6, 12:11 AM EST, 4 hours 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1211 AM EST FRI JAN 06 2017

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

0532 PM     SNOW             GALION                  40.73N  82.81W
01/05/2017  M2.0 INCH        CRAWFORD           OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0541 PM     SNOW             GREENE                  40.94N  81.46W
01/05/2017  M2.2 INCH        SUMMIT             OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0557 PM     SNOW             ALLIANCE                40.86N  81.12W
01/05/2017  M2.0 INCH        STARK              OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0621 PM     SNOW             CONNEAUT I-90           41.90N  80.57W
01/05/2017  M3.1 INCH        ASHTABULA          OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            24 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0623 PM     SNOW             BOARDMAN SE             41.03N  80.62W
01/05/2017  M2.0 INCH        MAHONING           OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0700 PM     SNOW             AKRON CANTON AIRPORT    40.91N  81.44W
01/05/2017  M2.7 INCH        SUMMIT             OH   ASOS

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0700 PM     SNOW             YOUNGSTOWN WARREN AIRPO 41.26N  80.68W
01/05/2017  M2.1 INCH        TRUMBULL           OH   ASOS

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0701 PM     SNOW             JEFFERSON 2NW           41.76N  80.81W
01/05/2017  M3.0 INCH        ASHTABULA          OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            24 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0708 PM     SNOW             ANDOVER                 41.60N  80.55W
01/05/2017  M2.0 INCH        ASHTABULA          OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0716 PM     SNOW             MADISON-ON-THE-LAKE     41.83N  81.05W
01/05/2017  M2.5 INCH        LAKE               OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0725 PM     SNOW             HINCKLEY                41.23N  81.72W
01/05/2017  M2.1 INCH        MEDINA             OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            24 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0748 PM     SNOW             DOYLESTOWN              40.99N  81.65W
01/05/2017  M2.0 INCH        WAYNE              OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0752 PM     SNOW             MAGNOLIA                40.65N  81.29W
01/05/2017  M3.0 INCH        STARK              OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0753 PM     SNOW             BRUNSWICK               41.25N  81.81W
01/05/2017  M2.2 INCH        MEDINA             OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0756 PM     SNOW             BURTON                  41.47N  81.18W
01/05/2017  M3.0 INCH        GEAUGA             OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0756 PM     SNOW             3 SW BUSHNELL           41.85N  80.61W
01/05/2017  M4.5 INCH        ASHTABULA          OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            24 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0804 PM     SNOW             GENEVA                  41.80N  80.94W
01/05/2017  M4.0 INCH        ASHTABULA          OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            24 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0812 PM     SNOW             3 SSW MACEDONIA         41.27N  81.52W
01/05/2017  M2.5 INCH        SUMMIT             OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0816 PM     SNOW             AUSTINTOWN              41.10N  80.75W
01/05/2017  M2.0 INCH        MAHONING           OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0822 PM     SNOW             CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS       41.78N  80.07W
01/05/2017  M4.0 INCH        CRAWFORD           PA   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0834 PM     SNOW             MANSFIELD               40.76N  82.54W
01/05/2017  M2.0 INCH        RICHLAND           OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0859 PM     SNOW             CONNEAUT                41.94N  80.61W
01/05/2017  M3.0 INCH        ASHTABULA          OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            24 HOUR SNOWFALL.

0904 PM     SNOW             SOLON                   41.37N  81.45W
01/05/2017  M2.0 INCH        CUYAHOGA           OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

1009 PM     SNOW             CHAGRIN FALLS           41.43N  81.41W
01/05/2017  M2.1 INCH        CUYAHOGA           OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

1017 PM     SNOW             TWINSBURG               41.35N  81.45W
01/05/2017  M2.0 INCH        SUMMIT             OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

1030 PM     SNOW             5 SSE ERIE              42.04N  80.11W
01/05/2017  M3.0 INCH        ERIE               PA   BROADCAST MEDIA

            3 INCHES OF SNOW IN ABOUT 2 HOURS.

1108 PM     SNOW             GENEVA 7S               41.73N  80.95W
01/05/2017  M4.0 INCH        ASHTABULA          OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

1115 PM     SNOW             EUCLID                  41.62N  81.49W
01/05/2017  M4.0 INCH        CUYAHOGA           OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            6 HOUR SNOWFALL. 4 INCHES OF NEW SNOW FROM 7PM TO 11PM.

1123 PM     SNOW             PAINESVILLE             41.75N  81.19W
01/05/2017  M2.0 INCH        LAKE               OH   SNOW SPOTTER

            12 HOUR SNOWFALL.

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SEFCOVIC

Local storm report, Jan 6, 3:40 AM EST, 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 6, 3:57 AM EST, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 6, 4:35 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 5, 7:06 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Lake	114 min
Jan 5, 9:54 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	CLE		6 hr
Jan 5, 11:05 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lake	3 hr
Jan 6, 3:20 AM EST	Wind Chill Advisory	CLE	Ashland, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Hancock, Holmes and 19 more	7 hr
Jan 6, 2:35 PM EST	Wind Chill Advisory	CLE	Ashland, Crawford, Erie, Hancock, Holmes, Huron and 13 more	18 hr
Jan 6, 2:33 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Erie	87 min
Jan 6, 3:49 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Erie	86 min
Jan 6, 5:14 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Erie	2 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Ohio, 2017 Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2017 Every special weather statement 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.