Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 1995, 7:18 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Ohio. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 1995, 7:18 PM EDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1995, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ottawa County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 152320 FFWCLE OHC123-160115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 718 PM EDT TUE AUG 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...OTTAWA COUNTY AT 717 PM EDT...A SEVERE WEATHER OBSERVER AT OAK HARBOR IN OTTAWA COUNTY REPORTED THAT 2.25 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE 630 PM. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. BARJENBRUCH
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, 3:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lucas | 117 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, 7:22 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.