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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 25, 1997Knox County, Morrow County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 1997, 2:05 PM EDT for Knox County, Morrow 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
May 25, 1997, 2:05 PM EDT (18:05 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1997, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Knox County, OH, Morrow County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1997-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 192 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1997-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 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
192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 251806
FFWCLE
OHC075-083-117-252100-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
205 PM EDT SUN MAY 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...HOLMES COUNTY...KNOX COUNTY...MORROW COUNTY
 
THE FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING HAS BEEN EXTENDED
UNTIL 5 PM FOR MORROW...KNOX AND HOLMES COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON.
 
RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW FAIRLY HEAVY RAINS MOVING ACROSS THE AREA THIS
AFTERNOON. AROUND 1.5 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN FELL ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA T
SMORNING AND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. ANOTHER ONE HALF TO INCH MAY FALL
BEFORE THE RAIN BEGINS TO TAPER OFF LATER THIS AFTERNOON.
 
STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN MORROW COUNTY BY THE SHERIFFS
DEPARTMENT.
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:05 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHancock, Seneca, Wood3 hr
May 25, 7:05 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHenry3 hr
May 25, 8:18 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHuron3 hr
May 25, 9:25 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Lorain, Medina, Richland, Wayne3 hr
May 25, 9:25 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEPortage, Stark, Summit3 hr
May 25, 9:25 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull3 hr
May 25, 11:16 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes, Knox3 hr
May 25, 11:16 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMorrow3 hr
May 25, 2:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes3 hr
May 25, 4:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Holmes, Knox, Wayne4 hr
May 25, 4:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford, Morrow, Richland4 hr
May 25, 4:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMedina4 hr
May 25, 4:41 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHancock, Wyandot4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.