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Flash Flood Warning 184, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 14, 1996Cuyahoga County, Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Sep 14, 1996, 2:30 AM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Geauga County, Lake 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 14, 1996, 2:30 AM EDT (06:30 UTC)
Expired: Sep 14, 1996, 5:30 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:29 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 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 140629
FFWCLE
OHC035-055-085-140930-

BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
230 AM EDT SAT SEP 14 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS EXTENDED THE
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS
UNTIL 530 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN OHIO
...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST CUYAHOGA COUNTY...NORTHERN GEAUGA COUNTY
...LAKE COUNTY

AT 230 AM CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A LINE OF SHOWERS
EXTENDING EAST FROM THE CLEVELAND LAKESHORE THROUGH EASTERN CUYAHOGA
COUNTY AND PORTIONS OF LAKE AND NORTHERN GEAUGA COUNTIES.  THE SHOWERS
WERE LOCALLY HEAVY.  MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH HOWEVER SHOWERS
CONTINUED TO REFORM JUST OFF SHORE AND MOVE INLAND.  THE GROUND OVER

THESE COUNTIES WAS ALREADY SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINFALL DURING
THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS AND FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL FRIDAY OVER
NORTHERN AND EASTERN CUYAHOGA...WESTERN LAKE AND NORTHERN GEAUGA
COUNTIES. STREAMS IN SOME OF THESE AREAS ARE ALREADY NEAR BANKFULL
AND COULD OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS WITH LITTLE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL.
EXTENSIVE PONDING OF WATER WILL ALSO OCCUR ON SOME ROADWAYS OVER THE
AREA.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO `RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
$$
TK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 13, 11:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake	3 hr
Sep 14, 5:30 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Lake	3 hr
Sep 14, 5:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Lake	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1996 Every 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.