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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this freeze warning at May 11, 2026, 12:58 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Mahoning County, Trumbull County, Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at May 12, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 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
- May 11, 2026, 12:58 PM EDT (16:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 12, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 12, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 1180 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 12:58 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | CLE | Ashland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 20 more | 19 hr |
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.