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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 4, 1993Monroe County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 1993, 6:51 PM EDT for Monroe County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 1993, 6:51 PM EDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 1993, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Monroe County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 517 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCAK 042253
FFWCAK
OHC013-067-081-019-111-050200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
651 PM EDT SUN JUL 4 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...BELMONT COUNTY...HARRISON COUNTY...JEFFERSON COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...CARROLL COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...MONROE COUNTY
 
AT 643 PM EDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RECEIVED A REPORT THAT 1.38
INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN A HALF HOUR IN IRONDALE IN NORTHERN JEFFERSON
COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST OHIO THIS EVENING ARE
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS WHICH IS COMPOUNDED BY THEIR SLOW MOVENMENT
TO THE EAST AT 15MPH SO FLOODING IS LIKEY TO OCCUR.
 
 
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
AT,TEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
 
IK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	38 min
Jul 4, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	59 min
Jul 4, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga	57 min
Jul 4, 4:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga	2 hr
Jul 4, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	57 min
Jul 4, 4:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Portage, Stark, Summit	68 min
Jul 4, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Trumbull	46 min
Jul 4, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Harrison, Tuscarawas	61 min
Jul 4, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Belmont, Guernsey, Monroe, Noble	2 hr
Jul 4, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Carroll	116 min
Jul 4, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	116 min
Jul 4, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Harrison	57 min
Jul 4, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Jefferson	69 min
Jul 4, 6:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Belmont, Carroll, Harrison, Jefferson	3 hr

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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.