Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 17, 1995, 4:58 PM EDT for Knox County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1995, 4:58 PM EDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Knox County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 3111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 172059 FFWCLE OHC083-172300- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 458 PM EDT THU AUG 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...KNOX COUNTY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS KNOX COUNTY. STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN DANVILLE OVER THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY. DO NOT DRIVEL 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. GABRIC &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Fulton | 55 min |
| Aug 17, 11:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 56 min |
| Aug 17, 1:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lucas | 2 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky | 58 min |
| Aug 17, 2:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lucas, Ottawa | 112 min |
| Aug 17, 2:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 112 min |
| Aug 17, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 2:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie | 26 min |
| Aug 17, 3:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 2 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 58 min |
| Aug 17, 3:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Lorain, Richland | 2 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 57 min |
| Aug 17, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 57 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.