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Flash Flood Warning 177, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 7, 1996Erie County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 1996, 10:45 AM EDT for Erie 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
Sep 7, 1996, 10:45 AM EDT (14:45 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 1996, 1:15 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Erie County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:49 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 1996-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 32 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 1996-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 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
32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1030 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 071449
FFWCLE
OHC043-071715-
 
BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1045 AM EDT SAT SEP 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS CONTINUED THE
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SOME AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN MAINLY OVER THE EASTERN
PORTION OF ERIE COUNTY. THE RAIN INTENSITY WILL DECREASE BY EARLY
AFTERNOON. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN 2 TO 4 INCHES SINCE FRIDAY
EVENING. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL MAY CAUSE SOME STREAM AND STREET
FLOODING.
 
SO FAR NO FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FROM ERIE COUNTY OHIO.
 
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
 
 
&Z

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 5:30 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina4 hr
Sep 7, 6:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie, Huron4 hr
Sep 7, 6:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLERichland4 hr
Sep 7, 9:11 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Lorain, Medina4 hr
Sep 7, 9:11 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga4 hr
Sep 7, 12:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMedina3 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.