Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 100, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 1996, 4:50 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1996, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 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
- 496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 182050 FFWCLE PAC039-190000- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 450 PM EDT TUE JUN 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...CRAWFORD COUNTY AT 445 PM DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT MORE THAN ONE INCH OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF CRAWFORD SINCE 3PM. THIS COMBINED WITH THE RAIN THE FELL EARLY TODAY HAS CAUSED SOME STREAMS IN CRAWFORD COUNTY TO RISE OUT OF THEIR BANKS. FLOODING OF SMALL STREAM WILL LIKELY COUNTINE THROUGH 8PM. DO NOT DRIVE 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. 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, Jun 18, 2:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
OHZ022-023-032-033-190000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 205 PM EDT TUE JUN 18 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR EASTERN OHIO... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EASTERN OHIO INCLUDING TRUMBULL...MAHONING...PORTAGE...AND STARK COUNTIES. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST OHIO EAST OF AKRON NEAR I-76 AND I-80 ARE MOVING EAST A ROUND 20 MPH AND MAY INTENSIFY FARTHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LAPLANTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 6:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 8:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 9:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 65 min |
| Jun 18, 9:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 12:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 116 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.