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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH

January 22, 2021Ashtabula County, Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Jan 22, 2021, 3:00 PM EST for Ashtabula County, Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 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
Jan 22, 2021, 3:00 PM EST (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Jan 22, 2021, 4:00 PM EST
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH

Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 2021-01-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2021-01-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
909 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
98 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

380 
WWUS81 KCLE 222000
SPSCLE

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
300 PM EST Fri Jan 22 2021

OHZ012>014-023-089-222100-
Geauga OH-Lake OH-Trumbull OH-Ashtabula Lakeshore OH-
Ashtabula Inland OH-
300 PM EST Fri Jan 22 2021

...An intense lake effect snow band will affect northern Trumbull...
northern Geauga...Lake and Ashtabula Counties Until 400 PM EST....

At 258 PM EST, radar indicated an intense lake effect snow band in 
northern Geauga and Lake Counties. This lake effect snow band was 
nearly stationary.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
Winds to 30 mph...
Visibility rapidly dropping to a half mile or less...

Locations impacted include...
Painesville, Ashtabula, Willowick, Conneaut, Chardon, Fairport
Harbor, Geneva-On-The-Lake, Mentor, Willoughby, Eastlake, Geneva,
Madison, North Kingsville, Perry, Orwell, Andover, Timberlake,
Willoughby Hills, Mentor-On-The-Lake and Kirtland.

To report hazardous weather conditions, go to our website at
weather.gov/cle and submit your report via social media, when you can
do so safely.

LAT...LON 4145 8052 4150 8123 4164 8148 4176 8129
      4176 8124 4185 8104 4187 8090 4191 8080
      4198 8052
TIME...MOT...LOC 1958Z 267DEG 6KT 4163 8123 

&&

ODOT DMS  314, 315, 326, 330, 331, and 332.

$$

Kahn

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 22, 6:26 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLEAshtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga, Huron, Lake and 2 more2 hr
Jan 22, 7:36 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLEAshtabula114 min
Jan 22, 2:07 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLECuyahoga, Geauga53 min
Jan 22, 5:11 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLECuyahoga, Geauga, Trumbull49 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.