Flash Flood Warning 197, NWS Cleveland, OH

Issued

Sep 28, 1996, 12:10 PM EDT (16:10 UTC)

Expired

Sep 28, 1996, 4:00 PM EDT

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Cleveland, OH

Area

Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KCLE 281611
FFWCLE
PAC039-049-282000-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1210 PM EDT SAT SEP 28 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS EXTENDED THE 
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS  TO COUNTINUE
UNTIL 4 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
LOCATIONS...
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...ERIE COUNTY
 
AT 1150 AM DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN ACROSS
MUCH OF ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES. THE RAIN WAS SHOWING SIGNS OF
BECOMING MORE SCATTERED OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO...AND THIS WILL
SPREAD INTO WESTERN PARTS OF ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES DURING THE EARLY
AFTERNOON HOURS. 

STORM TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 AND 1/2 INCHES TO 2 AND 1/2 INCHES ARE
QUITE COMMON OVER THE TWO COUNTY AREA WITH A FEW ISOLATED READINGS
APPROACHING 3 INCHES. SEVERAL AREAS HAVE REPORTED STREET FLOODING DUE
TO SEVERS BACKING UP AND SOME BASEMENT FLOODING. SOME OF THE CREEKS IN
THE AREA WERE RISING OVER THEIR BANKS AND CAUSING SOME ADDITIONAL
PROBLEMS. 

HEAVIER RAINS WILL BE TAPERING OVER OVER WESTERN PARTS OF ERIE AND
CRAWFORD COUNTY DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS...BUT MAY CONTINUE OVER
CENTRAL AND EASTERN PARTS OF THESE COUNTIES TILL 2 TO 3 PM. AN
ADDITIONAL INCH TO INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE IN SOME AREAS
DURING THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL FLOODING IS LIKELY OVER THE
AREA THIS AFTERNOON. FLOOD WATERS WILL LIKELY TAKE A FEW ADDITIONAL
HOURS TO THEN RECEDE.

IF YOU ENCOUNTER FLOODED ROADWAYS...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FORD THEM. YOUR
VEHICLE AND YOU MAY BE WASHED AWAY. IF YOU OBSERVE FLOODING HEAD TO
HIGHER GROUND AND REPORT THE FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATION|AL WEATHER SERVICE.

VRCEK

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 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.