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Lake Effect Snow Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this lake effect snow warning at Dec 4, 2024, 4:42 AM EST for 7 counties in Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Dec 4, 2024, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 62 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 4, 2024, 4:42 AM EST (09:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 4, 2024, 4:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 7, 2024, 5:34 AM EST
- In force
- 62 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH, Portage County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:46 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 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 146 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake effect snow warning 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 lake effect snow warning went out at Dec 4, 1:34 AM EST, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 4, 1:34 AM EST, 3 hours 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 3, 9:50 PM EST | Low Water Advisory | CLE | 42 hr | |
| Dec 4, 4:42 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CLE | Lorain, Mahoning, Medina | 46 hr |
| Dec 4, 5:13 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Ashland, Holmes, Morrow, Richland, Stark, Wayne | 92 min |
| Dec 4, 5:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Mahoning | 94 min |
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.