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Snow Squall Warning 17, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this snow squall warning at Jan 19, 2026, 8:32 AM EST for Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 2026, 8:32 AM EST (13:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2026, 9:15 AM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lucas County, OH, Wood County, OH
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow squall 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 snow squall warning went out at Jan 18, 6:35 PM EST, 13 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 6:35 PM EST, 13 hours 57 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 8:19 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit, Wayne | 56 min |
| Jan 19, 9:07 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 53 min |
| Jan 19, 9:23 AM EST | Snow Squall Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 22 min |
| Jan 19, 9:36 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Ashland, Erie, Lorain, Medina, Wayne | 39 min |
| Jan 19, 10:11 AM EST | Snow Squall Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina, Summit, Wayne | 49 min |
| Jan 19, 10:48 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Geauga, Lake, Portage, Stark | 42 min |
| Jan 19, 11:05 AM EST | Snow Squall Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake | 40 min |
| Jan 19, 11:37 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 38 min |
| Jan 19, 11:47 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga | 58 min |
| Jan 19, 12:52 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CLE | Ashtabula, Lake | 53 min |
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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.