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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 23, 1996Erie County, Huron County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Apr 23, 1996, 9:07 AM EDT for Erie County, Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 6 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
Apr 23, 1996, 9:07 AM EDT (13:07 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 1996, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Erie County, OH, Huron County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:07 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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 1996-04-23Temperature 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-67 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 231306
FFWCLE
OHC005-007-033-035-043-055-075-077-083-PAC039-049-231915-
 
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
907 AM EDT TUE APR 23 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ASHLAND COUNTY...ASHTABULA COUNTY...CRAWFORD COUNTY
   ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY...ERIE COUNTY...GEAUGA COUNTY...HOLMES COUNTY
   ...HURON COUNTY...KNOX COUNTY
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...ERIE COUNTY
 
NEARLY TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHERN OHIO AND
NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA SINCE MONDAY EVENING. A LARGE AREA OF RAIN IS
CONTINUING TO MOVE THROUGH THIS REGION. CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE RAIN
WILL PERSIST ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL LATE
AFTERNOON WITH AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN POSSIBLE.
 
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.
 
 
RINGO/JOLLY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 9:07 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula6 hr
Apr 23, 9:07 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Holmes, Knox6 hr
Apr 23, 9:07 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga6 hr
Apr 23, 9:07 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford6 hr
Apr 23, 9:14 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESandusky, Seneca6 hr
Apr 23, 9:14 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEOttawa6 hr
Apr 23, 9:14 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELorain, Medina6 hr
Apr 23, 9:14 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELake6 hr
Apr 23, 9:14 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMahoning, Portage6 hr
Apr 23, 9:14 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMarion, Morrow6 hr
Apr 23, 9:14 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLERichland6 hr
Apr 23, 9:21 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark, Summit, Wayne6 hr
Apr 23, 9:21 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLETrumbull6 hr
Apr 23, 9:21 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWyandot6 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.