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Flash Flood Warning 87, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 14, 1996Portage County, Summit County, Ohio

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1996-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1996-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning65 min
Jun 13, 8:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina69 min
Jun 13, 8:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMahoning, Portage2 hr
Jun 13, 9:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESummit2 hr
Jun 13, 9:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull37 min
Jun 13, 9:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMedina118 min
Jun 13, 10:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning58 min
Jun 13, 11:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain63 min
Jun 13, 11:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Summit63 min
Jun 14, 3:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood42 min
Jun 14, 5:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie41 min
Jun 14, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky50 min
Jun 14, 7:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLERichland117 min
Jun 14, 7:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWood115 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.