Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 135, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 1996, 4:09 AM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. 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
- Jul 19, 1996, 4:09 AM EDT (08:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1996, 7:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:12 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 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 429 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 190811 FFWCLE OHC007-PAC039-049-191115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 409 AM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...ASHTABULA COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...ERIE COUNTY AT 405 AM DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER EASTERN ASHTABULA COUNTY...WESTERN ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA AND CRAWFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME BASEMENT FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN LINESVILLE OF CRAWFORD COUNTY WITH SOME STREET FLOODING IN WESTERN ERIE COUNTY PENNSYVLANIA. FLOODING OF ROADS AND STREAMS MAY OCCUR. THE HEAVY RAIN SHOULD BEGIN TO DECREASE BETWEEN 5 AND 6 AM. 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, Jul 19, 2:34 AM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
OHZ012>014-023-PAZ001>003-190800- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 230 AM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EDT FOR LAKE...GEAUGA...ASHTABULA AND TRUMBULL COUNTIES IN OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM AVON POINT TO RIPLEY TILL 3 AM EDT. A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ASHTABULA AND ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA TIL 345 AM EDT. A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR LAKE COUNTY AND CRAWFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA TILL 415 AM EDT. AT 230 AM DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM LOWER MICHIGAN ACROSS LAKE ERIE TO EAST OF CLEVELAND AND INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. JUST BEFORE 1 AM DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN CHERRY VALLEY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY. AT 138 AM EDT ONE TREE WENT DOWN IN AUBURN TOWNSHIP IN SOUTHERN GEAUGA COUNTY. AT 210 AM A LITTLE STREET FLOODING WAS OCCURRING IN PAINESVILLE TOWNSHIP IN LAKE COUNTY. SOME RAINFALL REPORTS FROM ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA...2 INCHES IN WEST SPRINGFIELD...1.75 IN ALBION AND 1.34 IN LAKE CITY. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR WARNINGS ARE ISSUED PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. KIELTYKA &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 12:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 37 min |
| Jul 19, 12:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Trumbull | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 1:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lake | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 3:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 49 min |
| Jul 19, 4:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 8:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 11:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 3:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1996Flash 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.