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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 29, 1995Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1995, 4:21 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1995, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Stark County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 264 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
264 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
152 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 292023
FFWCLE
OHC151-292230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
421 PM EDT THU JUN 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...STARK COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED 1 TO 2
INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF STARK COUNTY SINCE 330 PM.
THIS IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING.
 
MOST 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.
 
RINGO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 10:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit34 min
Jun 29, 12:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron56 min
Jun 29, 1:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Marion58 min
Jun 29, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull51 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.