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Beach Hazards Statement 18, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 28, 2021Ashtabula County, Lake County, Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this beach hazards statement at Sep 28, 2021, 12:04 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Lake County, Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 28, 2021, 12:04 PM EDT (16:04 UTC)
Expired
Sep 28, 2021, 3:32 PM EDT
In force
3 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 16:07 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, 4.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2021-09-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 560 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2021-09-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 223 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
560 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.5

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The text

As transmitted.

004 
WHUS41 KCLE 281604
CFWCLE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
1204 PM EDT Tue Sep 28 2021

OHZ012-089-PAZ001-282000-
/O.NEW.KCLE.BH.S.0018.210928T1604Z-210928T2000Z/
Lake-Ashtabula Lakeshore-Northern Erie-
1204 PM EDT Tue Sep 28 2021

...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT THIS
AFTERNOON...

* WHAT...High risk of rip currents.

* WHERE...In Pennsylvania, Northern Erie County. In Ohio, Lake 
  and Ashtabula Lakeshore Counties.

* WHEN...Until 4 PM EDT this afternoon.

* 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
806 
WHUS41 KCLE 281932
CFWCLE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
332 PM EDT Tue Sep 28 2021

OHZ012-089-PAZ001-282045-
/O.CAN.KCLE.BH.S.0018.000000T0000Z-210928T2000Z/
Lake-Ashtabula Lakeshore-Northern Erie-
332 PM EDT Tue Sep 28 2021

...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED...

Waves and rip currents will slowly relax into the early evening.

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 28, 12:05 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryCLE3 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.