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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Cleveland, OH

January 19, 1996Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jan 19, 1996, 8:25 AM EST for Erie 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
Jan 19, 1996, 8:25 AM EST (13:25 UTC)
Expired
Jan 19, 1996, 11:30 AM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Erie County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 190 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-01-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -212 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
519 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-237 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 191327
FFWCLE
OHC007-155-PAC039-049-191630-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
825 AM EST FRI JAN 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS EXTENDED THE
FLOOD WARNING  UNTIL 1130 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ASHTABULA COUNTY...TRUMBULL COUNTY
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...ERIE COUNTY
 
EVEN THOUGH THE RAIN HAS ENDED...HIGH WATER CONTINUES TO AFFECT MANY
AREAS. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS INDICATE THAT NUMEROUS ROADS REMAIN
CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. RAINFALL OVERNIGHT GENERALLY RANGED FROM
AROUND 1 INCH TO NEARLY 2 INCHES IN SOME AREAS.
 
MOST FLOOD DEATHS 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.
 
 
GABRIC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 18, 9:25 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford6 hr
Jan 19, 2:48 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie5 hr
Jan 19, 8:25 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford3 hr
Jan 19, 6:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford6 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.