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Flash Flood Warning 79, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 12, 1996Ashtabula County, Geauga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 1996, 3:44 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Geauga 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 12, 1996, 3:44 PM EDT (19:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Geauga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 161 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 36 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 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
36 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
959 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 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 121946
FFWCLE
OHC007-055-122145-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
344 PM EDT WED JUN 12 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ASHTABULA COUNTY...GEAUGA COUNTY
 
SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE
TORRENTIAL RAINS OVER GEAUGA AND ASHTABULA COUNTIES THROUGH
5 PM. URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING IS LIKELY. ONE TO TWO INCHES
OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE BY 5 PM.
 
 
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.
 
LAPLANTE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 1:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain55 min
Jun 12, 1:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELorain2 hr
Jun 12, 2:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Wayne40 min
Jun 12, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain55 min
Jun 12, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood37 min
Jun 12, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne55 min
Jun 12, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland32 min
Jun 12, 5:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull39 min
Jun 12, 5:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWood115 min
Jun 12, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes63 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1996Every 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.