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Flash Flood Warning 144, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 29, 1996Seneca County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 1996, 3:29 PM EDT 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
Jul 29, 1996, 3:29 PM EDT (19:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
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 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.5 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 1996-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 361 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 1996-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
361 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
823 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 291930
FFWCLE
OHC147-292230-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
329 PM EDT MON JUL 29 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...SENECA COUNTY
 
PERSISTANT THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DUMPED TWO TO THREE INCHES OF
RAIN OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN SENECA COUNTY SINCE 1PM. THE HEAVIEST
CONCENTRATION OF RAIN WAS ABOUT 5 TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TIFFIN.
HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SECTIONS OF SENECA COUNTY UNTIL
ABOUT 5 PM.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS 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.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
RINGO

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 2:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock41 min
Jul 29, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca, Wyandot55 min
Jul 29, 3:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHancock117 min
Jul 29, 3:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWyandot58 min
Jul 29, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot58 min
Jul 29, 3:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWyandot2 hr

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.