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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 10, 1996Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 1996, 3:50 PM EDT for Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 115 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 10, 1996, 3:50 PM EDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-05-10Temperature 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 123 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 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 101951
FFWCLE
PAC049-039-102145-
 
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
350 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES...
 
AT 349 PM...CLEVELAND WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED ABOUT AN INCH OF
RAIN HAS FALLEN NEAR ERIE SINCE 3 PM. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS
REPORTED SOME FLOODING OF STREETS IN AND AROUND ERIE. AS ADDITIONAL
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO THE AREA...THE THREAT FOR FLOODING
WILL CONTINUE IN ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES.
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
 
 
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 8:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford3 hr
May 9, 8:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford44 min
May 10, 5:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford57 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.