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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 19, 2020Crawford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Jun 19, 2020, 4:11 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 34 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: Jun 19, 2020, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2020, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH

County Crawford County, PA

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1284 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 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 Jun 19, 3:57 PM EDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:57 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 6:29 AM EDT, 9 hours 42 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
629 AM EDT Fri Jun 19 2020

LEZ061-142>149-162>169-OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-
089-PAZ001>003-201030-
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-Lucas-Wood-
Ottawa-Sandusky-Erie-Lorain-Cuyahoga-Lake-Geauga-Ashtabula Inland-
Hancock-Seneca-Huron-Medina-Summit-Portage-Trumbull-Wyandot-Crawford-
Richland-Ashland-Wayne-Stark-Mahoning-Marion-Morrow-Holmes-Knox-
Ashtabula Lakeshore-Northern Erie-Southern Erie-
629 AM EDT Fri Jun 19 2020

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Lake Erie, eastern
Lake Erie, western Lake Erie, north central Ohio, northeast Ohio,
northwest Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania.

.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

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 2:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
216 PM EDT Fri Jun 19 2020

OHZ018-019-191845-
Seneca-Huron-
216 PM EDT Fri Jun 19 2020

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN HURON AND
SOUTHEASTERN SENECA COUNTIES...

At 216 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 8 miles northwest of
Willard, or 15 miles southwest of Norwalk, moving south at 5 mph.

Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail are possible with this
storm.

Locations impacted include...
Willard and Attica.

LAT...LON 4119 8291 4119 8281 4100 8271 4099 8299
      4100 8300
TIME...MOT...LOC 1816Z 001DEG 6KT 4112 8285

Saunders

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 2:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
252 PM EDT Fri Jun 19 2020

OHZ018-028-191915-
Crawford-Seneca-
252 PM EDT Fri Jun 19 2020

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN SENECA AND NORTH
CENTRAL CRAWFORD COUNTIES...

At 251 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Bloomville, or
11 miles east of Tiffin, moving southwest at 15 mph.

Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail are possible with this
storm.

Locations impacted include...
Bloomville, Chatfield, Attica and Republic.

LAT...LON 4118 8297 4114 8288 4094 8292 4100 8317
TIME...MOT...LOC 1851Z 024DEG 11KT 4109 8297

Saunders

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:11 PM EDT, 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
Jun 18, 8:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Cuyahoga	50 min
Jun 18, 8:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Cuyahoga	48 min
Jun 19, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Huron	29 min
Jun 19, 2:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Seneca	23 min
Jun 19, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Seneca	44 min
Jun 19, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Geauga	55 min
Jun 19, 6:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga, Trumbull	2 hr
Jun 19, 6:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Trumbull	3 hr
Jun 19, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Portage	43 min

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.