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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 29, 1996Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Apr 29, 1996, 7:28 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 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 29, 1996, 7:28 PM EDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 1996, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 1996-04-29Temperature 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 1996-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 468 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
548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
468 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
783 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 292330
FFWCLE
OHC075-300130-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
728 PM EDT MON APR 29 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...HOLMES COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND SKYWARN OBSERVERS REPORT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF
RAINFALL AN HOUR IN HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE AREA. THIS
AMOUNT OF RAIN ON TOP OF ALREADY HIGH RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL CAUSE
RAPID RISES IN THAT AREA.
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion, Morrow55 min
Apr 29, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland36 min
Apr 29, 6:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland39 min
Apr 29, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes, Knox29 min
Apr 29, 7:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain, Medina116 min
Apr 29, 7:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Erie, Huron, Richland116 min
Apr 29, 7:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWayne116 min
Apr 29, 7:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEGeauga, Portage, Stark, Summit2 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.