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Flash Flood Warning 202, NWS Cleveland, OH

December 11, 1996Stark County, Summit County, Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Dec 11, 1996, 4:31 PM EST for Stark County, Summit County, Wayne 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
Dec 11, 1996, 4:31 PM EST (21:31 UTC)
Expired
Dec 11, 1996, 7:30 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-12-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-12-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 309 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
838 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
309 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
445 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 112134
FFWCLE
OHC151-153-169-120030-
 
BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
431 PM EST WED DEC 11 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...STARK COUNTY...SUMMIT COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 3/4 AND 1.25 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
BETWEEN 130 PM AND 430 PM. ADDITIONAL MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR
INTO THE EVENING HOURS WHICH IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE FLOODING OF SOME LOW
LYING AREAS AND STREETS.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADW"AY.  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.
 
GABRIC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 11, 4:12 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Richland3 hr
Dec 11, 5:56 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes3 hr
Dec 11, 5:56 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLETrumbull3 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.