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Flash Flood Warning 87, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1996, 12:31 AM EDT for Portage County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 119 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 14, 1996, 12:31 AM EDT (04:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1996, 2:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Portage County, OH, Summit County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1481 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 140432 FFWCLE OHC133-153-140630- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1231 AM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...PORTAGE COUNTY...SUMMIT COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS OVER NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY NEAR TWINSBURG AND OVER NORTHERN PORTAGE NEAR THE CITY OF STREETSBORO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL AND DOWNPOURS HEAVY ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. 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. END/COMEAUX
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 13, 7:44 PM EDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO
739 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0508 PM 3 NW HOLMESVILLE OH WIND DAMAGE
06/13/96 HOLMES ROOF BLOWN OFF OF BARN
0723 PM SE OF LOUISVILLE OH 65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/13/96 STARK 24 TO 28 INCH T6OP OF TREE
SNAPPED OFF
MILLER
...CORRECTED LOCATION OF 723 PM REPORT.Special weather statement, Jun 13, 8:10 PM EDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
OHZ007>013-019-020-140200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 810 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTH SHORELINE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOSTLY OVER LAKE ERIE FROM JUST EAST OF SANDUSKY TO EUCLID. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL..WINDS GUSTING TO 45 MPH AND DOWNPOURS HEAVY ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLOODING. THE MORE INTENSE STORMS SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE CITY OF LORAIN TO CLEVELAND. REMEMBER...IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. END/COMEAUX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 69 min |
| Jun 13, 8:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Portage | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Summit | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 9:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Medina | 118 min |
| Jun 13, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 11:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 11:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 3:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 42 min |
| Jun 14, 5:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 41 min |
| Jun 14, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 7:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Richland | 117 min |
| Jun 14, 7:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wood | 115 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.