Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Cleveland, OH
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 12:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 117 min |
| Jun 25, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 40 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.