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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Cleveland, OH

January 19, 1996Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jan 19, 1996, 2:48 AM EST for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 5 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
Jan 19, 1996, 2:48 AM EST (07:48 UTC)
Expired
Jan 19, 1996, 7:45 AM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Erie County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 190 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 00:00Z on 1996-01-19Temperature 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1996-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 682 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
972 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
682 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1061 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 190751
FFWCLE
PAC049-191245-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
248 AM EST FRI JAN 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING MAY OCCUR THIS MORNING. RAIN WILL BE
ENDING OVER ERIE COUNTY AROUND SUNRISE. HOWEVER...UP TO AN
INCH OF RAIN MAY FALL AND WITH THE GROUND SATURATED SOME ROADS WILL HAVE
HIGH WATER ON THEM AND SOME STREAMS MAY GO OUT OF THERE BANKS. ONCE THE
RAIN ENDS THE THREAT OF FLOODING WILL SLOWLY DIMINISH.
 
A FEW FLOODED ROADS WERE REPORTED NEAR ALBION AND UNION CITY.
 
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.
 
KIELTYKA
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 18, 9:25 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford6 hr
Jan 19, 8:25 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford3 hr
Jan 19, 8:25 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie3 hr
Jan 19, 6:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 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.