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Flash Flood Warning 108, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 19, 1996Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1996, 1:51 AM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. 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 19, 1996, 1:51 AM EDT (05:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1996, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Erie County, PA

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:52 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 146 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 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 190554
FFWCLE
PAC049-190800-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
151 AM EDT WED JUN 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS UPGRADED THE FLOOD WARNING
TO A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AT 150 AM DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS
MOVED EAST. HOWEVER...TWO AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN CORRY IN
SOUTHEAST ERIE COUNTY BETWEEN 1245 AM AND 130 AM. WIDESPREAD STREET AND
BASEMENT FLOODING WAS OCCURRING IN CORRY.
 
BECAUSE OF THE TERRAIN IN THE EASTERN PART OF ERIE COUNTY...THE FLOOD
WARNING HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A FLASH FLOOD WARNING.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUJICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
 
 
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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, 8:38 PM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before

OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-190000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
836 PM EDT TUE JUN 18 1996

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR A LARGE PART OF
NORTH CENTRAL OHIO AND ALL OF NORTHWEST OHIO.

THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE COUNTIES WEST OF A LINE FROM
ABOUT VERMILION...SOUTH TO MANSFIELD AND MOUNT VERNON.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR THE
REMAINDER OF NORTHERN OHIO.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHEAST OHIO. HEAVY
DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS SHOULD BE EXPECTED
WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS.

GABRIC

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 10:29 PM EDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

OHZ009>014-019>023-029>033-038-047-190400-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1025 PM EDT TUE JUN 18 1996

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND
NORTH EAST OHIO.

THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN OVER NORTHEAST OHIO THIS EVENING...MAINLY EAST
OF A CLEVELAND TO WOOSTER LINE. HOWEVER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING
HIGH WINDS OR LARGE HAIL ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN NORTHEAST OHIO INTO THE
EARLY MORNING HOURS...AND SOME MAY CONTAIN HEAVY RAINS.

WCR

Local storm report, Jun 19, 12:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
1200 AM EDT WED JUN 19 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1030 PM    BRUNSWICK                 OH   FLOODING
06/18/96   MEDINA                         STREET FLOODING, 1.25
                                          INCHES RAIN 45 MINUTES

1030 PM    STRONGSVILLE              OH   FLOODING
06/18/96   CUYAHOGA                       STREET FLOODING
1110 PM    ERIE                      PA   FLOODING
06/18/96   ERIE                      PA   1 TO 2 FEET ON ROADS MILL
                                          CREEK TOWNSHIP MANY OTHER
                      j                    COUNTY ROADS COVERED WITH
                                          WATER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 8:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Erie	3 hr
Jun 18, 11:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Erie	4 hr
Jun 19, 3:57 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Crawford, Erie	6 hr
Jun 19, 1:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Erie	4 hr
Jun 19, 7:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Crawford	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1996 Every 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.