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Winter Weather Advisory 2, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 4, 2018, 12:15 PM EST for Ashtabula County, Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 33 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 4, 2018, 12:15 PM EST (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2018, 9:25 PM EST
- In force
- 33 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:18 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 88 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 3:51 AM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Warning | CLE | 36 hr |
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.