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Flash Flood Warning 149, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 1996, 1:53 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
- Aug 8, 1996, 1:53 PM EDT (17:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1996, 4:00 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 17:53 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, 5.9 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
- 1268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 081753 FFWCLE PAC039-049-082000- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 153 PM EDT THU AUG 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...ERIE COUNTY AT 150 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS MOVING ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY AND CRAWFORD COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY DEADLY LIGHTNING...HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. A SKYWARN SPOTTER FROM GUYS MILLS REPORTED 1.65 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN BETWEEN 1230 PM AND 130 PM. 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. JOLLY/COMEAUX &
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, Aug 8, 1:03 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
OHZ010>014-019>023-028>033-037-038-047-PAZ001>003-081955-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
101 PM EDT THU AUG 8 1996
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH
CENTRAL... NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNYSLVANIA UNTIL 6PM EDT.
THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGAING WINDS... HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE
IN THE WATCH AREA.
AT 1PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST
STORMS WERE NEAR THE ISLANDS OF WESTERN LAKE ERIE. OTHER STRONGER
STORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR ERIE PENNYSLVANIA TO CANTON OHIO. THE
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
AT 1240 A REPORT OF ONE FOOT DIAMETER TREE AND NUMEROUS BRANCHES DOWN
IN NEWTON FALLS OHIO IN TRUMBULL COUNTY.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR MAHONING... STARK
COUNTIES IN OHIO AND ERIE COUNTY IN PENNYSLVANIA UNTIL 115 THIS
AFTERNOON AND UNTIL 130 PM PORTAGE AND TRUMBULL COUNTIES IN OHIO AND
CRAWFORD COUNTY IN PENNYSLVANIA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ALSO IN
EFFECT FOR ASHTABULA COUNTY.
PERSONS IN CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD KEEP UPDATE ON WEATHER BY
LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS.
THOMPSON
4 *** THIS SPACE FOR ADDITONAL INFORMATION ***
END/LAST NAMESpecial weather statement, Aug 8, 1:08 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
OHZ010>014-019>023-028>033-037-038-047-PAZ001>003-081955- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT... CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 101 PM EDT THU AUG 8 1996 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL... NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNYSLVANIA UNTIL 6PM EDT. THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGAING WINDS... HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA. AT 1PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR THE ISLANDS OF WESTERN LAKE ERIE. OTHER STRONGER STORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR ERIE PENNYSLVANIA TO CANTON OHIO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. AT 1240 A REPORT OF ONE FOOT DIAMETER TREE AND NUMEROUS BRANCHES DOWN IN NEWTON FALLS OHIO IN TRUMBULL COUNTY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR MAHONING... STARK COUNTIES IN OHIO AND ERIE COUNTY IN PENNYSLVANIA UNTIL 115 THIS AFTERNOON AND UNTIL 130 PM PORTAGE AND TRUMBULL COUNTIES IN OHIO AND CRAWFORD COUNTY IN PENNYSLVANIA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ALSO IN EFFECT FOR ASHTABULA COUNTY. PERSONS IN CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD KEEP UPDATE ON WEATHER BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS. THOMPSON ...CORDRECTION TO DELETE EXTRA WORDING...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 12:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 65 min |
| Aug 8, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 4:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 115 min |
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.