Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 88, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1996, 7:03 PM EDT for Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 117 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, 7:03 PM EDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1996, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richland County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 142304 FFWCLE OHC139-150100- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 703 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...RICHLAND COUNTY AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN RICHLAND COUNTY WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF ROME AND GANGES. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST HOUR. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO AL6LOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MILLER
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, 12:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 119 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, 7:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wood | 115 min |
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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.