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Flash Flood Warning 89, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 14, 1996Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1996, 7:35 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 14, 1996, 7:35 PM EDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1996, 9:30 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 23:38 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, 11.6 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 1996-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 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
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1177 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 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 142336
FFWCLE
OHC173-150130-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
735 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  930 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...WOOD COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED THAT A SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM
OVER THE AREA JUST SOUTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN HAD PRODUCED UP TO TWO
INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN 630 AND 730 THIS EVENING. THE STORM WAS MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL AFFECT RADNER AND RISING SUN BY 830 PM.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALL|OW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
DEB

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, 12:31 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEPortage, Summit119 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

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.