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Flash Flood Warning 175, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 1996, 9:11 AM EDT for Ashland County, Lorain County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 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
- Sep 7, 1996, 9:11 AM EDT (13:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1996, 1:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashland County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Medina County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:10 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 071315 FFWCLE OHC005-035-093-103-071715- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 911 AM EDT SAT SEP 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...ASHLAND COUNTY...CUYAHOGA COUNTY...LORAIN COUNTY ...MEDINA COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW BANDS OF HEAVY RAIN OVER LORAIN...WESTERN CUYAHOGA...MEDINA AND NORTHERN ASHLAND COUNTIES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN THOSE AREAS HAVE BEEN 3 TO 6 INCHES. THE RAIN WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE IN INTENSITY BY NOON AND ANOTHER INCH OF RAIN MAY OCCUR BETWEEN 9 AM AND NOON IN THOSE COUNTIES. SOME FLOODED BASEMENTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN MEDINA AND WESTERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY. SOME ROADS WERE ALSO FLOODED IN THE STRONGSVILLE AREA. FLOODING OF ROADS AND STREAMS ARE LIKELY. 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. KIELTYKA &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 5:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina | 4 hr |
| Sep 7, 6:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 4 hr |
| Sep 7, 6:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Richland | 4 hr |
| Sep 7, 9:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 4 hr |
| Sep 7, 10:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 12:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Medina | 3 hr |
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.