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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 5, 1995Cuyahoga County, Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 1995, 8:22 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1995, 8:22 PM EDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1995, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Medina County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 925 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 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
925 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1143 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 060024
FFWCLE
OHC035-103-060230-
 
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
822 PM EDT WED JUL 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY...MEDINA COUNTY
 
AT 815 PM DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS
FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF CUYAHOGA AND MEDINA COUNTY SINCE 700 PM. NEARLY
ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS ALSO FALLEN AT CLEVELAND HOPKINS AIRPORT SINCE 800
PM.
 
 
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.
 
 
 RINGO
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 8:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Lorain2 hr
Jul 5, 8:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes, Wayne69 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.