Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 102, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 1996, 5:55 PM EDT for Sandusky County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 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, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sandusky County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 182158 FFWCLE OHC143-190000- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 555 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 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...SANDUSKY COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SANDUSKY COUNTY. STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE CITY OF WOODVILLE. 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. MILLER
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, 3 hours 46 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
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 5:42 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-190000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 529 PM EDT TUE JUN 18 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT FOR ALL OF NORTHERN OHIO. AT 530 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO. THE STORMS WERE MOST NUMEROUS OVER NORTHWEST OHIO IN THE VICINITY OF TOLEDO AND FINDLAY. ALSO...STORMS WERE INCREASING IN NUMBER IN STARK COUNTY AROUND CANTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN IN SOME AREAS ALONG WITH THE POnTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. YOU SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPID FLOODING ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND IN URBAN AREAS WHERE THE HEAVY RAIN OCCURS. GABRIC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 43 min |
| Jun 18, 6:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Fulton | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 68 min |
| Jun 18, 5:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Fulton | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.