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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Cleveland, OH

February 27, 1996Seneca County, Ohio

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-02-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 6:01 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEOttawa119 min
Feb 27, 6:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa25 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.