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Flash Flood Warning 81, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 13, 1996Holmes County, Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1996, 4:54 PM EDT for Holmes County, Wayne 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 13, 1996, 4:54 PM EDT (20:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Holmes County, OH, Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 1996-06-13Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 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 132055
FFWCLE
OHC075-169-132300-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
454 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...HOLMES COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY
 
PERSISTENT STRONG TO SEVERE SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE
TO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST WAYNE AND HOLMES
COUNTIES THROUGH 6 PM. THIS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLOODING OF SOME
SMALL STREAMS.
 
 
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.  VEHICLES 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood42 min
Jun 13, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland25 min
Jun 13, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne64 min
Jun 13, 4:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes59 min
Jun 13, 5:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESummit2 hr
Jun 13, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes67 min
Jun 13, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit67 min
Jun 13, 6:34 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit41 min
Jun 13, 6:44 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEStark61 min
Jun 13, 7:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark, Summit118 min
Jun 13, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark30 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.