Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Feb 27, 1996, 10:14 AM EST for Seneca County, Ohio. 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
- Feb 27, 1996, 10:14 AM EST (15:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1996, 1:15 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Seneca County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:14 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 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 271521 COR FFWCLE OHC147-271815- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING ...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1022 AM EST TUE FEB 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...SENECA COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND REPORTS FROM LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT INDICATE FROM 1 INCH TO 1.25 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ACROSS SENECA COUNTY FROM 8 TO 10 AM. FLOODING ACROSS PORTIONS OF MANY HIGHWAYS HAS BEEN REPORTED ACROSS THE COUNTY INCLUDING STATE HIGHWAY 224. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS LIKELY THROUGH THE MORNING WHICH WILL LIKELY CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING. 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. TK/BV ...CORRECTED CODING IN HEADER...
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, Feb 27, 6:44 AM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-281200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 644 AM EST TUE FEB 27 1996 THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT. A LOW PRESSURE STORM SYSTEM OVER NORTHERN ILLINOIS THIS MORNING WITH A STRONG COLD FRONT SOUTH TO TEXAS WILL ADVANCE TOWARD THE LOCAL AREA TODAY. THE LOW AND COLD FRONT WILL THEN MOVE ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT. A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE SOUTHERLY FLOW OF AIR WILL DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA TODAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ALONG WITH BRIEF TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE OVER WESTERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON IN ADVANCE OF THE COLD FRONT. SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE REMAINDER OF NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA LATE TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AND/OR HAIL THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF LARGER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR THE LATEST ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. HILTBRAND
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 6:01 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 119 min |
| Feb 27, 6:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 25 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.