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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 9, 2020Crawford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2020, 11:08 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 52 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: Jul 9, 2020, 11:08 PM EDT (03:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2020, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH

County Crawford County, PA

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 361 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1737 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 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 Jul 9, 10:20 PM EDT, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 10:20 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 10:14 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 9, 9:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 9:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 9:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 9:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 10:31 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 11:08 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
Jul 9, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Geauga	46 min
Jul 9, 8:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Erie, Huron	36 min
Jul 10, 11:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Cuyahoga	36 min
Jul 10, 12:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	61 min
Jul 10, 12:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Lucas, Wood	29 min
Jul 10, 12:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	66 min
Jul 10, 12:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Marion, Wyandot	32 min
Jul 10, 12:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Knox, Morrow	44 min
Jul 10, 12:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	40 min
Jul 10, 1:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Mahoning	28 min
Jul 10, 1:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox, Morrow	55 min
Jul 10, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		90 min
Jul 10, 1:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Seneca	41 min
Jul 10, 1:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Trumbull	64 min
Jul 10, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Hancock, Seneca, Wyandot	63 min
Jul 10, 1:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	44 min
Jul 10, 1:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Mahoning	58 min
Jul 10, 1:35 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		115 min
Jul 10, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca	62 min
Jul 10, 1:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Trumbull	3 hr
Jul 10, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky	52 min
Jul 10, 2:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron, Seneca	58 min
Jul 10, 2:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Ashtabula, Lake	54 min
Jul 10, 2:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Trumbull	2 hr
Jul 10, 2:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky	109 min
Jul 10, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Crawford, Marion, Wyandot	28 min
Jul 10, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	40 min
Jul 10, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		98 min
Jul 10, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Marion, Morrow	46 min
Jul 10, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Huron	66 min
Jul 10, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron, Seneca	34 min
Jul 10, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox, Morrow	58 min
Jul 10, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		87 min
Jul 10, 3:40 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CLE		30 hr
Jul 10, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Stark	47 min
Jul 10, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Cuyahoga	28 min
Jul 10, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Mahoning	63 min
Jul 10, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Lake	61 min
Jul 10, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		61 min
Jul 10, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		48 min
Jul 10, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Trumbull	63 min
Jul 10, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	30 min
Jul 9, 8:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Crawford, Erie	57 min
Jul 9, 9:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Crawford	66 min

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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.