Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Apr 23, 1996, 9:14 AM EDT for Lake 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, 9:14 AM EDT (13:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1996, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lake County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:13 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 833 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 231313 FFWCLE OHC085-093-099-101-103-117-123-133-139-143-147-231915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 914 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 ...LAKE COUNTY...LORAIN COUNTY...MAHONING COUNTY ...MARION COUNTY...MEDINA COUNTY...MORROW COUNTY...OTTAWA COUNTY ...PORTAGE COUNTY...RICHLAND COUNTY...SANDUSKY COUNTY...SENECA COUNTY NEARLY TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHERN OHIO SINCE MONDAY EVENING. A LARGE AREA OF RAIN IS CONTINUING TO MOVE THROUGH HREGION. CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE RAIN WILL PERSIST ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO UNTIL LATE THIS 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 9:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Holmes, Knox | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Seneca | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lorain, Medina | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Portage | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Richland | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 6 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.