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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 10, 1996Ashtabula County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 1996, 4:44 PM EDT for Ashtabula 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 10, 1996, 4:44 PM EDT (20:44 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Ashtabula County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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, 8.7 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.

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: 414 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 272 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 102045
FFWCLE
OHC007-102245-
 
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
444 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  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ASHTABULA COUNTY
 
AT 435 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED
THAT MORE THAN ONE INCH OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF ASHTABULA
COUNTY SINCE 330 PM. A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS SOUTHWEST FROM EAST
OF JEFFERSON INTO NORTHEAST GEAUGA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO
MOVE NORTHEAST AND PRODUCE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN.
 
 
DO NOT DRIVvE 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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 8:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	36 min
May 9, 8:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	44 min
May 9, 8:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	41 min
May 10, 1:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	49 min
May 10, 1:30 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Stark	2 hr
May 10, 1:30 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Wayne	2 hr
May 10, 1:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland	65 min
May 10, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	46 min
May 10, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga	48 min
May 10, 5:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Hancock	2 hr
May 10, 5:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Wyandot	2 hr
May 10, 6:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	2 hr
May 10, 7:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Wayne	26 min
May 10, 7:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Huron	2 hr
May 10, 7:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Medina, Summit	2 hr
May 10, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	43 min
May 10, 7:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Summit	39 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.