1 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jan 26, 10:00 PM EST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1000 PM EST FRI JAN 26 2001 NO CHANGES TO CURRENT FORECAST. ZERO DEGREE C LINE IS MOVING CLOSE TO SOUTHERN COUNTIES CWA...BUT WITH LOW CURRENTLY JUST NE OF THUMB OF MICHIGAN AND MOVING SLOWLY E...EXPECT PCPN TO REMAIN SNOW OVER ENTIRE CWA. .CLE... OH...NONE. PA...NONE. DJB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Northwest winds across Lake Erie caused lake effect snow showers to develop. Accumulations of up to 6 inches were reported at several locations on the east end of the county with nearly 7 inches falling at Pepper Pike.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, January 2001
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