Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 1995, 7:34 PM EDT for Sandusky County, Ohio. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 1995, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 1995, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sandusky County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 702 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 913 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 122336 FFWCLE OHC143-130130- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 734 PM EDT SAT AUG 12 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS EXTENDED THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING UNTIL 930 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...SANDUSKY COUNTY AT 730 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND WAS SHOWING THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM WALBRIDGE IN WOOD COUNTY TO LINDSEY IN SANDUSKY COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE CLOSE TO THE TOWN OF FREMONT BY 8 PM. DOPPLER RAINFALL ESTIMATES HAVE BEEN AROUND 2 INCHES BETWEEN 630 PM AND 730 PM. URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING MAY OCCUR. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEhHICLE 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.