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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 9, 1995Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 1995, 6:47 AM EDT for Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 9, 1995, 6:47 AM EDT (10:47 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 1995, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Erie County, OH, Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:48 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 164 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1995-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1995-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -30 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
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 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 091049
FFWCLE
OHC043-093-091300-
 
BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
647 AM EDT WED AUG 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS AND URBAN AREAS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM
EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY...LORAIN COUNTY
 
AT 645 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND
INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN
FROM JUST NORTH OF SANDUSKY ACROSS NORTHEAST ERIE AND NORTHWEST LORAIN
COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
 
DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATED THAT BETWEEN ONE AND TWO AND
HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST ERIE AND
NORTHWEST LORAIN COUNTIES BETWEEN 445 AND 645 AM THIS MORNING. A SKYWARN
OBSERVER IN VERMILION REPORTED AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN BETWEEN 615
AND 645 AM.
 
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA FOR AT LEAST THE
NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS...PRODCUING HEAVY RAIN WHICH WILL CAUSE FLOODING
OF SMALL STREAMS AND URBAN 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 TvO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
GERARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 1:26 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESeneca2 hr
Aug 9, 2:16 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESeneca3 hr
Aug 9, 2:18 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie, Sandusky3 hr
Aug 9, 9:39 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Summit2 hr

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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.