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Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 17, 1995Ashland County, Lorain County, Richland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 17, 1995, 3:58 PM EDT for Ashland County, Lorain County, Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 17, 1995, 3:58 PM EDT (19:58 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 1995, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ashland County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Richland County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 199 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1344 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
3 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 171958
FFWCLE
OHC005-093-139-172200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
358 PM EDT THU AUG 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ASHLAND COUNTY...LORAIN COUNTY...RICHLAND COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES MORE THAN TWO INCHES OF HAS FALLEN OVER PORTIONS
OF LORAIN... ASHLAND AND RICHLAND COUNTIES SINCE 300 PM. THIS RAIN WILL
LIKELY CAUSE SOME FLASH FLOODING IN THESE COUNTIES.
 
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.
 
RINGO

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 17, 11:19 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-181200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1119 AM EDT THU AUG 17 1995

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

WITH A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE...THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT WILL CONTINUE TODAY.  A STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDING ACROSS
NORTHERN OHIO WILL FOCUS THE STORMS.

THE MAIN THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING
WINDS...THOUGH HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER...FLOODING MAY ALSO TAKE PLACE
AS SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN TORRENTIAL RAIN.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST
SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

BARJENBRUCH
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 2:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
OHZ003-005>014-017>021-027>031-036>038-047-172300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
210 PM EDT THU AUG 17 1995

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHERN OHIO...THIS
INCLUDES THE CITIES OF TOLEDO...CLEVELAND...MANSFIELD...AKRON AND
FINDLAY.

SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS...LARGE HAIL IS THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER AND WINDS
GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR HIGHER.

AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHWEST OHIO AND MOVING SLOWLY EAST.
HEAVY RAIN COULD ALSO BE A PROBLEM.

KIELTYKA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 9:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEFulton55 min
Aug 17, 11:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHenry56 min
Aug 17, 1:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELucas2 hr
Aug 17, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa, Sandusky58 min
Aug 17, 2:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELucas, Ottawa112 min
Aug 17, 2:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESandusky112 min
Aug 17, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron60 min
Aug 17, 2:49 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEErie26 min
Aug 17, 3:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie, Huron2 hr
Aug 17, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain63 min
Aug 17, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Richland58 min
Aug 17, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox57 min
Aug 17, 4:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEKnox2 hr
Aug 17, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow57 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.