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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 8, 1996Huron County, Sandusky County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 8, 1996, 9:25 PM EDT for Huron County, Sandusky 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: May 8, 1996, 9:25 PM EDT (01:25 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1996, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Huron County, OH, Sandusky County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 480 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 090126
FFWCLE
OHC077-143-090330-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
925 PM EDT WED MAY 8 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...HURON COUNTY...SANDUSKY COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED NEARLY STATIONARY SHOWERS
FROM 815 TO 920 PM FROM JUST SOUTH OF FREMONT IN CENTRAL SANDUSKY COUNTY
TO BELLEVUE TO MONROEVILLE IN NORTHWEST HURON COUNTY. THE BELLEVUE
POLICE REPORTED SOME STREET FLOODING AND ADDITIONAL FLOODING OF
STREETS...SMALL STREAMS...AND LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY UNTIL THE
SHOWERS DISSIPATE.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
 
KOSARIK
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 8:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Madison	19 min
May 9, 7:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	50 min
May 9, 7:21 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Hancock	2 hr
May 9, 7:43 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Wyandot	2 hr
May 9, 8:47 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Seneca	118 min
May 9, 8:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	40 min
May 9, 9:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Wyandot	3 hr
May 9, 11:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	68 min
May 9, 11:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	60 min
May 9, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	69 min
May 9, 7:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Fulton, Henry	38 min

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.