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 7, 3:57 AM EST, 6 hours 3 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 400 AM EST SUN JAN 6 2002 GNRLY 2 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW ON THE GRND ACRS RGN. RADAR SHOWS PCPN WL TAPER AND COME TO AN END THIS MORNING ACRS CWA. WL KP LKLY WORDING IN EAST FOR THE MORNING HOURS BUT KP ANY ACCUM LIGHT SO WL BE ABLE TO ALLOW ADVSRY TO EXPIRE. CLDS WL LKLY THIS IN THE WEST BUT A BUT MORE CAUTIOUS EAST HALF OF AREA WITH COLD ADVN ACRS LAKE. TO THIS END HAVE HELD ONTO THE MNTN OF AFTN FLURRIES EAST WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES. WL LKLY BREAK THIS EVG OR TNGT ACRS CWA AS WINDS TURN MORE WLY. FOR TUE DISTURBANCE FCST BY NGM/ETA INTO THE GRTLKS RGN DURG THE AFTN. NGM AND AVN KP IT FURTHER NORTH OVR MI AND PTS NORTH WHILE ETA DRAGGS IT ACRS LERI. GVN ALL MDLS AGREE ON ITS EXISTENCE WL PLACE CHC POPS IN BUT CONFIDENCE FACTOR NOT EXACTLY 100% GVN DIVERGENT TRACKS BETWEEN MDLS. .CLE... OH...NONE. PA...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Northwesterly flow across Lake Erie caused lake efffect snow bands to develop. Up to eight inches of snow fell in southeastern Cuyahoga County.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, January 2002
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