Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 140, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 1996, 3:48 PM EDT for 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, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, PA
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 831 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 191951 FFWCLE PAC049-192245- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 348 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...ERIE COUNTY RAINFALL LATE LAST NIGHT ACROSS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA WAS STILL CONTINUING TO CAUSE FLOODING ALONG SEVERAL SMALL STREAMS IN ERIE COUNTY. FLOODING WAS REPORTED NORTH OF ALBION NEAR STATE ROUTES 215 AND 6 NORTH. RESIDENTS IN WESTERN ERIE COUNTY CAN EXPECT FLOODING TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT ONE TO THREE HOURS. WATERS SHOULD BEGIN RECEEDING EARLY THIS EVENING. 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. RINGO &
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, 12:37 PM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
OHZ002-OHZ05-200000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1235 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 HEAVY RAINS FELL ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST OHIO FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. AS A RESULT...WATER LEVELS ALONG THE AUGLAIZE RIVER IN SOUTHWEST DEFIANCE COUNTY WERE RISING EARLY THIS AFTERNOON SOUTH OF THE DAM. WHILE FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED ALONG THE RIVER AT THIS TIME... ACCORDING TO THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY...THE RISE IN WATER LEVELS MAY PRESENT A PROBLEM FOR BOATS MOORED ALONG THE RIVER. THOSE WITH BOATS MOORED ALONG THE AUGLAIZE RIVER IN DEFIANCE COUNTY ARE URGED TO CHECK THEIR MOORINGS. TK
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 12:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
OHZ002-OHZ005-200000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED CODING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1240 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 HEAVY RAINS FELL ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST OHIO FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. AS A RESULT...WATER LEVELS ALONG THE AUGLAIZE RIVER IN SOUTHWEST DEFIANCE COUNTY WERE RISING EARLY THIS AFTERNOON SOUTH OF THE DAM. WHILE FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED ALONG THE RIVER AT THIS TIME... ACCORDING TO THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY...THE RISE IN WATER LEVELS MAY PRESENT A PROBLEM FOR BOATS MOORED ALONG THE RIVER. THOSE WITH BOATS MOORED ALONG THE AUGLAIZE RIVER IN DEFIANCE COUNTY ARE URGED TO CHECK THEIR MOORINGS. TK
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, 11:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 4 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.