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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 25, 1995Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 1995, 3:42 PM EDT for Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1995, 3:42 PM EDT (19:42 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1995, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 1995-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 268 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 1995-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 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
268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 251944
FFWCLE
OHC155-252145-
 
BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
342 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...TRUMBULL COUNTY
 
AT 340 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD FALLEN FROM
NEAR SHARON PENNSYLVANIA...WEST THROUGH GERARD. UP TO 11/2 INCHES OF
RAIN WAS INDICATED WHICH WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING
AREAS.
 
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
ABANDfONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
 
GABRIC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage42 min
Jul 25, 4:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula2 hr
Jul 25, 4:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula68 min
Jul 25, 6:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie115 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.