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Beach Hazards Statement 17, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this beach hazards statement at Sep 8, 2020, 3:48 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Lake County, Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Sep 8, 2020, 6:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 2020, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 8, 2020, 6:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2020, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Lake County, OH, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1154 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
359 WHUS41 KCLE 081948 CFWCLE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Cleveland OH 348 PM EDT Tue Sep 8 2020 OHZ012-089-PAZ001-090400- /O.NEW.KCLE.BH.S.0017.200908T2200Z-200909T0400Z/ Lake-Ashtabula Lakeshore-Northern Erie- 348 PM EDT Tue Sep 8 2020 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... * WHAT...High risk of rip currents expected. * WHERE...In Pennsylvania, Northern Erie County. In Ohio, Lake and Ashtabula Lakeshore Counties. * WHEN...6 PM EDT this evening until midnight EDT tonight. * IMPACTS...Wind and wave action will cause currents on the lakeshore. Swimmers should not enter the water. Currents can carry swimmers away from shore through a sand bar and along structures extending out into the lake. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$
1 follow-up statement
689 WHUS41 KCLE 090200 CFWCLE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Cleveland OH 1000 PM EDT Tue Sep 8 2020 OHZ012-089-PAZ001-090300- /O.CAN.KCLE.BH.S.0017.000000T0000Z-200909T0400Z/ Lake-Ashtabula Lakeshore-Northern Erie- 1000 PM EDT Tue Sep 8 2020 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... Winds have decreased and thus the risk for high waves and rip currents has decreased as well. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 9:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 6 hr |
| Sep 7, 10:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Marion | 6 hr |
| Sep 8, 2:30 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | CLE | Lorain | 10 hr |
| Sep 8, 3:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Ashland, Erie, Huron, Lorain | 89 min |
| Sep 8, 3:27 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 24 hr |
| Sep 8, 4:19 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 6 hr |
| Sep 8, 3:52 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CLE | 6 hr | |
| Sep 8, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Lucas | 30 min |
Nearby
Beach Hazards Statements in Ohio, 2020Beach Hazards Statements in Pennsylvania, 2020Every beach hazards statement in 2020
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.