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Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 12, 1996Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 1996, 5:20 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. 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
Jun 12, 1996, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 312 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, Detroit, MI 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.1939Sfc1 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
312 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 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 122121
FFWCLE
OHC173-122315-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
520 PM EDT WED JUN 12 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 518 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER
THE SAME AREA IN NORTHERN AND EASTERN WOOD COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR
ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN THE PAST HOUR
WITH UP TO ANOTHER INCH POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT HOUR.
 
A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS.  CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
 
 
WOODWORTH

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, 3:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula, Geauga2 hr
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, 5:42 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.