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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 25, 1995Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 1995, 1:24 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 1995, 1:24 PM EDT (17:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1995, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Erie County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 314 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 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
314 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 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 251724
FFWCLE
PAC049-251930-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
124 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AT 120 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED BETWEEN 2 AND 2.5
INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN WITH THUNDERSTORMS IN ERIE COUNTY SINCE 12:30
PM NEAR UNION CITY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO
DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS ERIE COUNTY THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 11:45 AM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
OHZALL-DDHHMM-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR OHIO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1145 AM EDT SUN JUN 25 1995

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY SAYS THAT
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF OHIO THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

A WARM AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE COMBINED WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE WILL
BE ENOUGH TO TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
OVER ALL OF OHIO. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH SOME
STORMS AND SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE SINCE THEY WILL BE SLOW
MOVING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION...STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS.

TK
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 11:46 AM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
OHZALL-DDHHMM-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR OHIO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1145 AM EDT SUN JUN 25 1995

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY SAYS THAT
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF OHIO THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

A WARM AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE COMBINED WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE WILL
BE ENOUGH TO TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
OVER ALL OF OHIO. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH SOME
STORMS AND SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE SINCE THEY WILL BE SLOW
MOVING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION...STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS.

TK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 12:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford117 min
Jun 25, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie40 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.