Flash Flood Warning 165, NWS Cleveland, OH

Issued

Aug 15, 1996, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)

Expired

Aug 15, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Cleveland, OH

Area

Whole counties

County Knox County, OH

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KCLE 152121
FFWCLE
OHC083-160015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
520 PM EDT THU AUG 15 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...KNOX COUNTY
 
AT 518 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS
WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS OVER KNOX COUNTY. MOST OF THE HEAVY RAIN WAS
FALLING OVER AREAS JUST EAST OF MOUNT VERNON TO THE KNOX-CONSHOCTON
COUNTY LINE. THSES STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR
ESTIMATES ABOUT 2.5 TO 2.8 INCHES OF RAIN FELL BETWEEN 415 AND 515 PM
THIS AFTERNOON.
 
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOFUR 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.
 
END/COMEAUX

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.