Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 1996, 8:47 AM EDT for Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 118 min. 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 9, 1996, 8:47 AM EDT (12:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1996, 10:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Seneca County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:30 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 950 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 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 091247 FFWCLE OHC147-091445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 847 AM EDT THU MAY 9 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...SENECA COUNTY AT 845 AM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING ACROSS THE COUNTY...SOME OF THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OVER THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE COUNTY...FROM FOSTORIA NORTH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST. 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 9, 6:09 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
OHZ001>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-101200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 605 AM EDT THU MAY 9 1996 THE NATIONAL STORM PREDICTIN CENTER IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS INDICATED THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA TODAY AND THIS EVENING. A WARM FRONT MOVING INTO NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA TODAY WILL CAUSE THUNDERSTORMS AND SOME COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT IS FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. HOWEVER...IT IS POSSIBLE THAT AN ISOLATED TORNADO COULD ALSO OCCUR. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYVLANIA NEED TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RAFDIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR WATCHES AND WARNINGS AND KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF NECESSARY. KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, May 9, 7:29 AM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-091700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 713 AM EDT THU MAY 9 1996 THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY HAS BEEN DROPPED FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST OHIO...BUT CONTINUES FOR THE REST OF NORTHERN OHIO TIL MID-MORNING. A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR ALL OF NORTHERN OHIO TODAY. A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAMS IS IN EFFECT FOR HANCOCK COUNTY UNTIL 930 AM EDT. A WARM FRONT THAT WAS ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO CAUSED THE DENSE FOG DURING THE NIGHT. VISIBILITIES A QUARTER MILE OR LESS WERE COMMON. THE DENSE FOG WILL CONTINUE TO DISSIPATE THIS MORNING. A WEATHER SYSTEM ALOFT THAT WAS MOVING ACROSS INDIANA WAS GENERATING SOME THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO. AS THE RAIN MOVED IN THE VISIBILITY IMPROVED. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT AROUND AN INCH OF RAIN FELL IN PARTS OF HANCOCK COUNTY BETWEEN 6 AM AND 730 AM. MORE HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE TODAY IN THE WATCH AREA AS THE WARM FRONT CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTH IN OHIO. PEOPLE IN THE FLOOD WATCH AREA NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND MONITOR LATER FORECASTS. KIELTYKA
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 8, 9:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Huron, Sandusky | 2 hr |
| 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, 8:50 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
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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.