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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 2, 2024Seneca County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2024, 4:11 PM EDT for Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 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: Aug 2, 2024, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2024, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Seneca County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 2, 4:03 PM EDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 4:03 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 4:05 AM EDT, 12 hours 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:11 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 8:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Seneca	3 hr
Aug 1, 8:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Lorain	3 hr
Aug 1, 9:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Ashland	44 min
Aug 1, 9:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Medina	44 min
Aug 1, 9:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Wayne	44 min
Aug 1, 10:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Stark	52 min
Aug 2, 12:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Ashtabula, Lake	50 min
Aug 2, 2:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Cuyahoga	94 min
Aug 2, 3:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga	2 hr
Aug 2, 3:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Sandusky	3 hr
Aug 2, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Wyandot	28 min
Aug 2, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Lucas	36 min
Aug 2, 5:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Wood	3 hr
Aug 2, 5:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Hancock, Sandusky, Seneca, Wood	3 hr
Aug 2, 6:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Crawford, Richland	2 hr
Aug 2, 7:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Erie, Huron	3 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.