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Flash Flood Warning 129, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 16, 1996Geauga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 1996, 3:08 PM EDT for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 67 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: Jul 16, 1996, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 1996, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Geauga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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 nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 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 161908
FFWCLE
OHC055-162015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
308 PM EDT TUE JUL 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMEFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...GEAUGA COUNTY
 
AT 305PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
RUSSELL TO BURTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH. VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AROUND BURTON AT 305PM. SOME
FLOODING IS LIKELY AS STORMS MOVE REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME AREAS.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
GABRIC
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 1:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga	55 min
Jul 16, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	34 min
Jul 16, 2:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Trumbull	115 min
Jul 16, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga	67 min
Jul 16, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Henry	58 min
Jul 16, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wood	68 min
Jul 16, 7:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Geauga	2 hr
Jul 16, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.