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Flash Flood Warning 210, NWS Cleveland, OH

December 12, 19964 counties in Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Dec 12, 1996, 11:18 AM EST for 4 counties in 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 12, 1996, 11:18 AM EST (16:18 UTC)
Expired: Dec 12, 1996, 2:15 PM EST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

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

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:17 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 82 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 159 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 121622
FFWCLE
OHC005-075-139-151-153-169-121915-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1118 AM EST THU DEC 12 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ASHLAND COUNTY...HOLMES COUNTY...RICHLAND COUNTY
   ...STARK COUNTY...SUMMIT COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT 1115 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERIVCE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED
A LINE OF LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS FROM FINDLAY SOUTHEAST TO ZANESVILLETHIS LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. THE HEAVIEST RAIN
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LINE WILL PASS OVER AREAS THAT ARE ALREADY
SATURATED AND EXPERIENCED FLOODING LAST EVENING.
 
AN ADDITIONAL THREE QUARTERS TO AN INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE OVER
THESE AREAS ONCE THE RAIN BEGINS.  THIS MUCH RAIN WILL LIKELY PRODUCE
ADDITIONAL FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON IN THESE COUNTIES.
 
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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 11, 7:25 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Stark, Wayne	2 hr
Dec 11, 7:50 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Mahoning	3 hr
Dec 11, 7:56 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Mahoning	3 hr
Dec 11, 9:29 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Stark	3 hr
Dec 12, 11:18 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland, Richland	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.