Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 139, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 1996, 11:04 AM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 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, 11:04 AM EDT (15:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1996, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 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 15:05 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, 3.1 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
- 1573 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 191506 FFWCLE PAC039-191900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1104 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 300 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...CRAWFORD COUNTY AT 11AM THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY REPORTED THAT FLOODING CONTINUES ACROSS PORTIONS OF CRAWFORD COUNTY LATE THIS MORNING. WHILE SMALLER STREAMS ARE BEGINNING TO RECEDE..MANY OF THE LARGER STREAMS AND TRIBUTARIES CONTINUE IN FLOOD OR BANKFULL. ALSO SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS CONTINUES AS WELL. WHILE LITTLE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAINS WILL CONTINUE THE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND STREAMS WELL INTO THE AFTERNOON. 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 STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. & TK
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
Local storm report, Jul 19, 6:28 AM EDT, 4 hours 36 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, 4 hours 30 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, 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, 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.