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Flash Flood Warning 110, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 19, 1996Crawford County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1996, 1:32 PM EDT for Crawford County, Ohio. It was in force for 118 min. 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, 1:32 PM EDT (17:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1996, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Crawford County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:36 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 1996-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 581 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1996-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
581 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 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 191734
FFWCLE
OHC033-191930-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
132 PM EDT WED JUN 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...CRAWFORD COUNTY
 
AT 130 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORM JUST
NORTH OF BUCYRUS. RADAR ESTIMATED ABOUT 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL SINCE
12:30 PM THIS AFTERNOON.  PONDING OF WATER IN LOW-LYING AND POOR
DRAINAGE AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
 
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.
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
 
END/BC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 8:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELorain2 hr
Jun 18, 10:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Medina116 min
Jun 19, 4:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula119 min
Jun 19, 5:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula2 hr
Jun 19, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie50 min
Jun 19, 6:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie116 min
Jun 19, 7:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula116 min

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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.