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Flash Flood Warning 121, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 24, 1996Geauga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 1996, 6:51 AM EDT for Geauga 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 24, 1996, 6:51 AM EDT (10:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1996, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Geauga County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 230 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1996-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1996-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 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 241053
FFWCLE
OHC055-241300-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
651 AM EDT MON JUN 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...GEAUGA COUNTY
 
DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR HAS INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR OVER PARTS GEAUGA COUNTY. RAINFALL
RATES OF ONE-AND-A-HALF TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS. STREET FLOODING AND FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS IS LIKELY.
 
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.
 
VRCEK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 2:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEFulton60 min
Jun 24, 5:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain62 min
Jun 24, 11:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland54 min
Jun 24, 11:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland34 min
Jun 24, 11:35 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion25 min
Jun 24, 11:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford39 min
Jun 24, 11:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes34 min
Jun 24, 12:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland33 min
Jun 24, 12:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina44 min
Jun 24, 12:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne62 min
Jun 24, 12:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland30 min
Jun 24, 12:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit64 min
Jun 24, 12:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark56 min
Jun 24, 12:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEPortage, Stark, Summit3 hr
Jun 24, 12:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Medina, Wayne3 hr
Jun 24, 12:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes3 hr
Jun 24, 12:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLERichland3 hr
Jun 24, 12:54 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit36 min
Jun 24, 1:05 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEPortage55 min
Jun 24, 1:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox46 min
Jun 24, 1:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes57 min
Jun 24, 1:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox41 min
Jun 24, 1:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning62 min
Jun 24, 1:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Wayne58 min
Jun 24, 1:50 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEMahoning25 min
Jun 24, 2:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMahoning60 min

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.