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Flash Flood Warning 101, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 18, 1996Ottawa County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 1996, 5:41 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Ohio. 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, 5:41 PM EDT (21:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
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 21:53 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 241 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 533 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
533 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1024 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 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 182144
FFWCLE
OHC123-190045-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
541 PM EDT TUE JUN 18 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...OTTAWA COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS SOUTHWEST OTTAWA
COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATE BETWEEN 1.0
AND 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THE PAST HALF HOUR IN SOME
LOCATIONS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25
MPH.
 
 
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERrE 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.
 
 
MILLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot43 min
Jun 18, 6:46 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEFulton3 hr
Jun 18, 1:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage68 min
Jun 18, 5:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESandusky2 hr
Jun 18, 6:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEFulton3 hr

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.