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Extreme Cold Watch 2, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this extreme cold watch at Feb 5, 2026, 1:12 AM EST for Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 7, 2026, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2026, 1:12 AM EST (06:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 7, 2026, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2026, 12:58 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this extreme cold watch 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 extreme cold watch went out at Feb 5, 12:15 AM EST, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 5, 12:15 AM EST, 57 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 12:58 PM EST | Cold Weather Advisory | CLE | Ashland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 22 more | 47 hr |
| Feb 5, 1:04 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CLE | Ashland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 20 more | 36 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:36 PM EST | Gale Watch | CLE | 11 hr | |
| Feb 5, 12:58 PM EST | Extreme Cold Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 47 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.