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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH

February 1, 2021Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Feb 1, 2021, 4:28 PM EST for Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Feb 1, 2021, 4:28 PM EST (21:28 UTC)
Expired
Feb 1, 2021, 6:30 PM EST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH

Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Medina County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.5 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 2021-02-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2021-02-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 121 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
522 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

139 
WWUS81 KCLE 012128
SPSCLE

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
428 PM EST Mon Feb 1 2021

OHZ010>012-020-012330-
Lake OH-Medina OH-Lorain OH-Cuyahoga OH-
428 PM EST Mon Feb 1 2021

...A line of snow showers will affect Cuyahoga...Medina...
southwestern Lake and Lorain Counties Until 630 PM EST....

At 428 PM EST, radar indicated snow showers along a line extending
from North Ridgeville to near Macedonia, moving southwest at 20 mph.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
Winds to 30 mph...
Visibility dropping to less than three quarters of a mile...
Up to 1 inch of quick snow accumulation...

Locations impacted include...
Cleveland, Lorain, Elyria, Medina, Painesville, Willowick, Vermilion,
Parma, Lakewood, Euclid, Mentor, Cleveland Heights, Strongsville,
Brunswick, Westlake, North Royalton, North Ridgeville, Solon, Avon
Lake and Willoughby.

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

LAT...LON 4175 8129 4158 8129 4156 8139 4145 8139
      4142 8137 4142 8139 4135 8141 4135 8159
      4128 8157 4128 8169 4099 8169 4099 8217
      4106 8218 4107 8234 4143 8234 4143 8227
      4152 8201 4148 8189 4149 8174
TIME...MOT...LOC 2128Z 029DEG 17KT 4141 8204 4126 8159 

$$

Kahn

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 1, 6:27 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCLESandusky, Seneca2 hr

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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.