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Flash Flood Warning 147, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 1996, 2:59 PM EDT for Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 2 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 30, 1996, 2:59 PM EDT (18:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1996, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:58 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 301900 FFWCLE PAC039-049-302100- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 259 PM EDT TUE JUL 30 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...ERIE COUNTY AT 254 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES PENNSYLVANIA. THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE RAPID PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AROUND 4 PM WITH CLEARING EXPECTED SHORTLY AFTER. 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. BM &
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 30, 11:16 AM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-311200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1115 AM EDT TUE JUL 30 1996 THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE CROSSING THE REGION EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...MAY TRIGGER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF A CLEVELAND TO MANSFIELD TO MOUNT VERNON LINE. A COLD FRONT WILL ENTER NORTHWEST OHIO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND WORK EAST...EXITING THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA EARLY TONIGHT. WITH A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE...THE FRONT MAY TRIGGER ADDITIONAL SEVERE STORMS. ANY SEVERE WEATHER WILL MOST LIKELY OCCUR IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WIND OR LARGE HAIL. ADDITIONALLY...MANY OF THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF OVER AN INCH IN AN HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER AND/OR FLOOD INFORMATION. PLEASE REPORT ANY OCCURRENCE OF SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BARJENBbRUCH
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 2:10 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
OHZ014-022-023-032-033-PAZ001>003-302200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 210 PM EDT TUE JUL 30 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE ASHTABULA...KENT...YOUNGSTOWN... ERIE AND MEADVILLE. A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM WILLOWICK TO RIPLEY TIL 330 PM. AT 2 PM SOME OF THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED OR THREATENING WEATHER MOVES IN. KIELTYKA
Nearby
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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.