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Flash Flood Warning 130, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 1996, 7:42 PM 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
- Jul 16, 1996, 7:42 PM EDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1996, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- 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 23:42 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, 11.7 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 162343 FFWCLE OHC055-170145- FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 742 PM EDT TUE JUL 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...GEAUGA COUNTY AT 740 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN WEST OF WELSHFIELD WITH THUNDERSTORMS THAT ARE MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN GEAUGA COUNTY. THIS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING ST`REAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. HAWKINS
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, Jul 16, 4:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
PAZ001>003-170100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 401 PM EDT TUE JUL 16 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING FOR ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ERIE...MEADVILLE AND CORRY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS OF 58 MPH OR MORE AND LARGE HAIL OF THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR MORE. REMEMBER THAT TORNADOS CAN FORM FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS POSSIBLE WHERE RAINFALL IS HEAVY. PEOPLE LIVING IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY ALERT TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. ADAMS
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 5:22 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
PAZ001-002-003-162230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 522 PM EDT TUE JUL 16 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NOW CANCELLED FOR ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN OHIO AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA BUT GENERALLY SOUTH OF ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES. SINCE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORHM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA. END/COMEAUX
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 | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Geauga | 67 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, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.