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Flash Flood Warning 126, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 24, 1996Mahoning County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 1996, 2:15 PM EDT for Mahoning County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 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 24, 1996, 2:15 PM EDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1996, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Mahoning County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 273 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 171 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1204 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
183 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 241817
FFWCLE
OHC099-241915-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
215 PM EDT MON JUN 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...MAHONING COUNTY
 
THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS MAHONING COUNTY BETWEEN 1 PM AND 2 PM THIS
AFTERNOON AND DUMPED HEAVY RAINS. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT NEARLY 2 INCHES
OF RAIN FELL IN SOME OF THE STORMS IN LESS THAN ONE HOUR.
 
NUMEROUS REPORTS OF STREET FLOODING WERE RECEIVED FROM AROUND
YOUNGSTOWN.
 
 
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, 2:14 PM EDT, 1 minute before
PAZ001>003-242000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
212 PM EDT MON JUN 24 1996

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN
NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

AT 210 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MAINLY SOUTH OF CRAWFORD COUNTY. THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON SHOULD BE
DRY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYVLANIA.

KIELTYKA

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 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

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.