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Flash Flood Warning 124, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 24, 1996Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 1996, 12:50 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. 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
Jun 24, 1996, 12:50 PM EDT (16:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1996, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 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 text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 241655
FFWCLE
OHC005-075-103-133-139-151-153-169-241945-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1250 PM EDT MON JUN 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ASHLAND COUNTY...HOLMES COUNTY...MEDINA COUNTY
   ...PORTAGE COUNTY...RICHLAND COUNTY...STARK COUNTY...SUMMIT COUNTY
   ...WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT 1250 PM DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY
RAIN. FLOODING OF STREETS AND BASEMENTS WILL OCCUR. SMALL STREAMS WILL
ALSO FLOOD. THE INTENSITY OF THE RAIN WILL SLOWLY DECREASE
THROUGH MID-AFTERNOON.
 
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.

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 24, 7:09 AM EDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-221200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
710 AM EDT MON JUN 24 1996

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO TODAY.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING TODAY
IN THE WARM AND HUMID AIR OUT AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT.  VERY STRONG AND
GUSTY WIND,S...HAIL...FRQUENT LIGHTENING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS  MAY
ACCOMPANY SOME OF THESE STORMS THROUGH THE AREA.

THE COLD FRONT SHOULD BRING AN END TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

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, 6:51 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEGeauga2 hr
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 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.