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Flash Flood Warning 207, NWS Cleveland, OH

December 11, 1996Mahoning County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Dec 11, 1996, 7:56 PM EST for Mahoning 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, 7:56 PM EST (00:56 UTC)
Expired
Dec 11, 1996, 10:45 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Mahoning County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 88 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 00:00Z on 1996-12-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1996-12-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 11, 7:25 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark, Wayne2 hr
Dec 11, 7:50 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEMahoning3 hr
Dec 11, 9:29 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark3 hr
Dec 12, 11:18 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Richland3 hr
Dec 12, 11:18 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes, Stark, Summit, Wayne3 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.