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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 15, 1995Lucas County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 1995, 3:03 PM EDT for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 15, 1995, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 117 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Lucas County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 182 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -179 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 929 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 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 151906
FFWCLE
OHC095-152100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
303 PM EDT TUE AUG 15 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...LUCAS COUNTY
 
AT 305 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM EAST OF TOLEDO NEAR HARBOR VIEW. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES PER HOUR. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM
ARE RENO BEACH AND BONO.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF DRAINAGE
SYSTEMS. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
 
 
RINGO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 15, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	61 min
Aug 15, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	61 min
Aug 15, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	59 min
Aug 15, 5:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	45 min
Aug 15, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Fulton	60 min
Aug 15, 5:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Fulton	41 min
Aug 15, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	68 min
Aug 15, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	59 min
Aug 15, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Sandusky	61 min
Aug 15, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wood	42 min
Aug 15, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	68 min
Aug 15, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron, Seneca	63 min
Aug 15, 7:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ottawa	117 min
Aug 15, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	68 min
Aug 15, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Medina	61 min

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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.