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Lake Effect Snow Warning 8, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this lake effect snow warning at Dec 28, 2025, 1:09 PM EST for Ashtabula County, Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Dec 29, 2025, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 4 days. 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 28, 2025, 1:09 PM EST (18:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 29, 2025, 10:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2026, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 days
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 654 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 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 28, 12:19 PM EST, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 12:19 PM EST, 50 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 1:47 AM EST | High Wind Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga, Hancock, Huron and 7 more | 41 hr |
| Dec 28, 1:47 AM EST | Wind Advisory | CLE | Ashland, Crawford, Holmes, Knox, Mahoning, Marion and 9 more | 41 hr |
| Dec 28, 3:35 AM EST | Gale Warning | CLE | 51 hr | |
| Dec 28, 3:35 AM EST | Storm Warning | CLE | 39 hr | |
| Dec 28, 9:16 AM EST | Low Water Advisory | CLE | 36 hr | |
| Dec 28, 1:09 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CLE | Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Mahoning and 6 more | 4 days |
| Dec 28, 2:02 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 11 hr |
Nearby
Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Ohio, 2025Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2025Every lake effect snow warning in 2025
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.