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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH

January 31, 2021Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Jan 31, 2021, 5:20 PM EST for Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 115 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 31, 2021, 5:20 PM EST (22:20 UTC)
Expired
Jan 31, 2021, 7:15 PM EST
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH

Counties Erie County, OH, Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 179 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2021-01-31Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2021-01-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 174 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

973 
WWUS81 KCLE 312220
SPSCLE

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
520 PM EST Sun Jan 31 2021

OHZ009-010-019-010015-
Huron OH-Erie OH-Lorain OH-
520 PM EST Sun Jan 31 2021

...A line of snow showers will affect northeastern Huron...Erie and
Lorain Counties Until 715 PM EST....

At 519 PM EST, radar indicated snow showers along a line extending
from near Sandusky to near Strongsville, moving northeast at 5 mph.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
Winds to 30 mph...
Visibility dropping to less than three quarters of a mile...
A quick inch or two of snow accumulation...

Locations impacted include...
Lorain, Elyria, Sandusky, Norwalk, Vermilion, Western Vermilion,
Strongsville, North Ridgeville, Avon Lake, Amherst, Grafton,
Wellington, Northern Milan, Milan, Wakeman, Castalia, Avon, Sheffield
Lake, Eaton and Oberlin.

Use extra caution if you must travel. Rapid changes in visibility and
potentially slick roads may lead to accidents.

LAT...LON 4150 8197 4135 8197 4135 8187 4127 8188
      4127 8197 4120 8197 4120 8207 4114 8207
      4114 8212 4130 8285 4142 8285 4147 8281
      4144 8275 4149 8269 4145 8269 4138 8249
      4143 8227 4152 8201
TIME...MOT...LOC 2219Z 222DEG 5KT 4149 8272 4132 8189 

$$

Kahn

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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.