Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 1995, 10:00 AM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 1995, 10:00 AM EDT (14:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 1995, 12:00 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, 2.0 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
- 1420 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 111359 FFWCLE PAC049-111600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1000 AM EDT FRI AUG 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...ERIE COUNTY AT 10 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER ERIE COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES AND REPORTS FROM SKYWARN OBSERVERS INDICATED ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL ACROSS NORTHERN SECTIONS OF ERIE COUNTY IN LESS THAN AN HOURS TIME. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE IN OFF THE LAKE THROUGH AT LEAST 11 AM...AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING. 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. GERARD
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, Aug 11, 7:28 AM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
OHZ010>014-020>023-030>033-038-047-PAZ001>003-121200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 728 AM EDT FRI AUG 11 1995 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER INDICATES THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND NORTHEAST OHIO TODAY AND TONIGHT. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHEAST OUT OF ONTARIO MAY AFFECT NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THIS MORNING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS COULD THEN REDEVELOP ACROSS NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY...AND FINALLY CONDITIONS APPEAR FAVORABLE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF A ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION LATE TONIGHT. CONDITIONS ARE SUCH THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH. PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. GERARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 8:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 62 min |
| Aug 11, 9:12 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie | 63 min |
| Aug 11, 9:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 68 min |
| Aug 11, 11:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 45 min |
Nearby
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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.