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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 22, 1995Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 1995, 8:02 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1995, 8:02 PM EDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1995, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Erie County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1457 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1457 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1153 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 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 KCLE 230003
FFWCLE
PAC049-230200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
802 PM EDT THU JUN 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AT 8 PM EDT NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CONTINUING TO MOVE SLOWLY WEST ACROSS ERIE COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES
INDICATE THAT BETWEEN TWO AND A HALF AND THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
BETWEEN ARBUCKLE AND MILL VILLAGE. THIS AMOUNT OF RAINFALL IS SUFFICENT
TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT 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 HIdGHER GROUND.
 
GERARD

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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.