Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 137, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 1996, 6:53 AM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. 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 19, 1996, 6:53 AM EDT (10:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1996, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:57 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 191054 FFWCLE PAC039-191300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 653 AM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...CRAWFORD COUNTY AT 650 AM DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED SOME THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING FROM ASHTABULA COUNTY INTO THE SOUTHERN PART OF CRAWFORD COUNTY MAINLY SOUTH OF MEADVILLE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS AROUND AN INCH MAY OCCUR BETWEEN 645 AM AND 8 AM AS THIS RAIN MOVES THROUGH. THIS RAINFALL WILL AGGRAVATE THE FLOODING THAT IS ALREADY GOING ON IN THE COUNTY. DO NOT nDRIVE 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, 4 hours 19 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 &
Local storm report, Jul 19, 6:28 AM EDT, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
618 AM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1257 AM OH .75 INCH HAIL
07/19/96 ASHTABULA HAIL WAS WEST OF ANDOVER.
0138 AM AUBURN CENTER OH WIND DAMAGE
07/19/96 GEAUGA ONE TREE DOWN.
0210 AM PAINESVILLE OH FLOODING
07/19/96 LAKE ONE ROAD FLOODED.
0300 AM SPRINGFIELD STATION PA FLOODING
07/19/96 ERIE ONE ROAD HAD A FOOT OF
WATER ON IT.
0315 AM LINESVILLE PA FLOODING
07/19/96 CRAWFORD BASEMENT FLOODING.
0415 AM LINESVILLE PA WIND DAMAGE
07/19/96 CRAWFORD SEVERAL LARGE LIMBS DOWN.
0440 AM PA FLOODING
07/19/96 CRAWFORD MAJOR FLOODING ACROSS THE
COUNTY WITH NUMEROUS ROADS
CLOSED AND BASEMENTS
FLOODED. MANY CREEKS ALSO
IN FLOOD.
0440 AM LINESVILLE PA FLOODING
07/19/96 CRAWFORD 3.5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL
BETWEEN 115 AM AND 440 AM.
0505 AM PA FLOODING
07/19/96 ERIE CREEK IN HARBOR CREEK IN
FLOOD.
N0524 AM PA FLOODING
07/19/96 CRAWFORD WATER WAS WAIST DEEP IN A
LOW SPOT IN CONNEAUTVILLE.Special weather statement, Jul 19, 6:34 AM EDT, 19 minutes before
OHZ012>014-023-PAZ001>003-191200- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 630 AM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR LAKE...GEAUGA...ASHTABULA AND TRUMBULL COUNTIES IN OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA HAS EXPIRED. HEAVY RAINFALL WAS THE MAIN PROBLEM FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AND SOME FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT. JUST BEFORE 1 AM DIME TSIZE HAIL OCCURRED IN CHERRY VALLEY...WEST OF ANDOVER IN ASHTABULA COUNTY. AT 0138 AM A TREE WAS REPORTED DOWN IN AUBURN TOWNSHIP OF SOUTHERN GEAUGA COUNTY. AT 415 AM SEVERAL BRANCHES DOWN IN LINESVILLE. KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 1:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 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, 4:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 4:43 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, 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.