A line of thunderstorms moved in off Lake Erie during the evening of August 26th. One of the thunderstorms caused wind damage with several large branches down in Lake City.
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A line of thunderstorms moved in off Lake Erie during the evening of August 26th. One of the thunderstorms caused wind damage with several large branches down in Lake City.
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 Aug 26, 4:45 PM EST, 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 545 PM EDT MON AUG 26 2013 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES THE FIRST HALF OF THE WEEK. MEANWHILE A WEAK FRONT WILL SAG SOUTH ACROSS THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES THIS EVENING. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE LAKES ON TUESDAY NIGHT AND DRAG A COLD FRONT SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL RETURN TO THE AREA FOR THE END OF THE WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM TUESDAY MORNING/... A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS LAKE ERIE INTO NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. DECIDED TO DO AN EARLY UPDATE TO ACCOUNT FOR THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. UPPED POPS TO CATEGORICAL AS WELL IN MOST AREAS IN THE NORTHEAST AS WELL. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLD FRONT SLIPPING SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA. FRONT WILL LIKELY STALL ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT AND WILL KEEP A THREAT FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS GOING OVERNIGHT. REST OF THE FORECAST AREA REMAINS UNCHANGED WITH THIS UPDATE. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/... HAVE DECIDED TO GO WITH LIKELY POPS ALL AREAS FOR TUESDAY AS THE AREA SHOULD FINALLY GET INTO THE NW FLOW ACTIVITY. AREA HAS BEEN OUTLOOKED FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND THAT SEEMS REASONABLE GIVEN SHEAR AND INSTABILITY PROFILES. STILL SOME QUESTION ON EXACT TIMING OF THE ACTIVITY SO WILL KEEP THE FORECAST GENERIC. NEXT BIG QUESTION IS HOW SOON THE PRECIP ENDS ON WEDNESDAY. IT APPEARS THE FRONT WILL BE THROUGH THE AREA BY EARLY AFTERNOON. WILL DRY THINGS OUT FROM NW TO SE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. OTHER QUESTION IS TEMPS...850 MB READINGS WILL REMAIN WARM TOMORROW BUT THERE SHOULD BE EVEN MORE CLOUDS. GIVEN FACT WE WILL GET OFF TO A MUCH WARMER START...STILL THINK READINGS WILL TOP OUT SIMILAR TO TODAY. AFTER WEDNESDAY EVENING...IT WILL BE DRY THROUGH THE END OF THE PERIOD. TEMPS WILL AGAIN WARM UP. PREVIOUS PACKAGE HAD A GOOD FEEL FOR THE WARMING TREND AND HAVE NOT MADE ANY DRASTIC CHANGES. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... THE UPPER RIDGE IS EXPECTED TO STAY JUST FAR ENOUGH WEST TO ALLOW WEAK UPPER DISTURBANCES TO DROP SE DOWN THE EAST SIDE OF THE RIDGE INTO THE EASTERN GREAT LAKE AREA SAT. WITHOUT ANY DECENT SURFACE FORCING WILL TEND TO STICK WITH SLIGHT CHANCE POPS SAT. BY SUN THE MODELS ARE STARTING TO DIFFER MORE WITH THE ECMWF MORE PROGRESSIVE. STILL LOOKS LIKE ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE TO LOW CHANCE POP SITUATION FOR NOW UNTIL THINGS BECOME A LITTLE CLEARER. THE MODEL DIFFERENCES ARE EVEN MORE PRONOUNCED AND INFLUENTIAL BY MON AS THE ECMWF WOULD HAVE THE FRONT EAST OF THE AREA SO THE THREAT OF PRECIP SHOULD BE DONE. WILL SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE AND KEEP YET ANOTHER DAY OF SLIGHT TO SMALL CHANCE POPS GOING. TEMPS LOOK TO RUN A LITTLE ABOVE NORMAL THRU THE PERIOD...ESPECIALLY IN THE WEST SAT AND SUN. MON MORE IN QUESTION BASED ON THE GREATER MODEL DIFFERENCES WITH THE POSITION OF THE COLD FRONT. && .AVIATION /18Z MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/... MODELS CONTINUE TO HINT THAT SOME BREAKAWAY CONVECTION WILL DRIFT SE INTO THE AREA SOMETIME TONIGHT THRU TUE MORNING. MODEL DIFFERENCES MAKE TIMING OF WHETHER AND WHEN THE POSSIBLE TSRA COULD BE AT ANY GIVEN TAF SITE IS STILL TOO HARD TO NAIL DOWN SO PLAN TO STICK WITH VICINITY FOR NOW. WILL PROBABLY SEE MVFR FOG DEVELOP AT THE INLAND TAF SITES LAST FEW HOURS OF THE NIGHT...THEN DISSIPATE AROUND 14Z. OUTLOOK...MVFR POSSIBLE WITH SHRA/TSRA BR TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY. && .MARINE... A SW FLOW OF ABOUT 10 TO 20 KNOTS SHOULD PREVAIL INTO WED WHEN A LOW WILL TRACK ACROSS THE LAKE AND SWITCH THE FLOW TO NORTH. AT THIS TIME IT LOOKS LIKE SCA CONDITIONS WILL NOT OCCUR. WINDS WILL DIMINISH INTO THU AND BECOME FAIRLY LIGHT AND VARIABLE AS HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD SLOWLY DRIFT ACROSS THE LAKE INTO SAT. && .CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. PA...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...KUBINA NEAR TERM...LOMBARDY SHORT TERM...KUBINA LONG TERM...ADAMS AVIATION...ADAMS MARINE...ADAMS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 309 PM EDT MON AUG 26 2013 LEZ061-142>149-162>169-OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047- 089-PAZ001>003-271915- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RIPLEY TO BUFFALO NY- MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH OH-RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH- THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH-VERMILION TO AVON POINT OH- AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK OH-WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE LAKE OH-GENEVA- ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT OH-CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM VERMILION TO AVON POINT- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY-LUCAS-WOOD- OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-GEAUGA-ASHTABULA INLAND- HANCOCK-SENECA-HURON-MEDINA-SUMMIT-PORTAGE-TRUMBULL-WYANDOT-CRAWFORD- RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE-STARK-MAHONING-MARION-MORROW-HOLMES-KNOX- ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-SOUTHERN ERIE-CRAWFORD PA- 309 PM EDT MON AUG 26 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE...NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHEAST OHIO...NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AND TUESDAY EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE FROM DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:19 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several large branches were brought down from thunderstorm winds. The branches were blocking a roadway.
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