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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Mar 20, 2020, 12:59 PM EDT for Holmes County, Knox County, Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 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
- Mar 20, 2020, 12:59 PM EDT (16:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2020, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Holmes County, OH, Knox County, OH, Stark County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Mar 20, 11:48 AM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 11:48 AM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Cleveland OH 526 AM EDT Fri Mar 20 2020 OHZ010>014-019>023-028>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-210930- Lorain-Cuyahoga-Lake-Geauga-Ashtabula Inland-Huron-Medina-Summit- Portage-Trumbull-Crawford-Richland-Ashland-Wayne-Stark-Mahoning- Marion-Morrow-Holmes-Knox-Ashtabula Lakeshore-Northern Erie- Southern Erie- 526 AM EDT Fri Mar 20 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central Ohio, northeast Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Gusty winds of 35-45 mph will be possible through this afternoon ahead and behind the cold front. A line of showers will develop just west of I-71 late morning and move east across the area through the early afternoon. The primary threat with this line includes scattered thunderstorms and the potential for pockets of damaging winds reaching 50-60 mph. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. LEZ061-142>149-162>169-210930- 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- 526 AM EDT Fri Mar 20 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Lake Erie, eastern Lake Erie and western Lake Erie. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. OHZ003-006>009-017-018-027-210930- Lucas-Wood-Ottawa-Sandusky-Erie-Hancock-Seneca-Wyandot- 526 AM EDT Fri Mar 20 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central Ohio and northwest Ohio. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 20, 12:38 PM EDT, 21 minutes 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 |
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| Mar 20, 6:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Holmes, Knox | 62 min |
| Mar 20, 11:05 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Wood | 14 hr |
| Mar 20, 12:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 43 min |
| Mar 20, 12:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 28 min |
| Mar 20, 12:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit | 36 min |
| Mar 20, 12:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Trumbull | 45 min |
| Mar 20, 12:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Holmes, Mahoning, Medina, Portage, Richland and 3 more | 42 min |
| Mar 20, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 34 min |
| Mar 20, 12:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Mahoning | 42 min |
| Mar 20, 4:21 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | CLE | Marion | 42 hr |
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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.