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Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 3, 1996Wyandot County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1996, 2:12 PM EDT for Wyandot 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
Jun 3, 1996, 2:12 PM EDT (18:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1996, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wyandot County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-06-03Temperature 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 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
934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 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 031815
FFWCLE
OHC175-032015-
 
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAMS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
212 PM EDT MON JUN 3 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...WYANDOT COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 11/2 AND 13/4 INCHES RAIN FELL NEAR THE
SANDUSKY RIVER BETWEEN 1PM AND 2PM. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL
PRODUCE MORE RAINFALL IN THE AREA WHICH IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE FLOODING.
 
A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MANY FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOnTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
 
GABRIC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford42 min
Jun 3, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain50 min
Jun 3, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox62 min
Jun 3, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes46 min
Jun 3, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark42 min
Jun 3, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull51 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.