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Flash Flood Warning 95, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 18, 1996Fulton County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 1996, 6:46 AM EDT for Fulton County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 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 18, 1996, 6:46 AM EDT (10:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1996, 9:45 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Fulton County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-18Temperature 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1996-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 251 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
415 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 181048
FFWCLE
OHC051-181345-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
646 AM EDT TUE JUN 18 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...FULTON COUNTY
 
AT 645 AM DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
OVER FULTON COUNTY...RAIN WAS HEAVY AT SOME LOCATIONS. DURING THE LAST
12 TO 18 HOURS OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AT SOME PLACES IN
FULTON COUNTY. MORE RAIN THIS MORNING WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SOME ROADS
AND STREAMS.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY LBE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot43 min
Jun 18, 1:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage68 min
Jun 18, 5:41 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEOttawa3 hr
Jun 18, 5:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLESandusky2 hr
Jun 18, 6:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEFulton3 hr

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.