Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 1997, 4:10 PM EDT for Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 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, 4:10 PM EDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1997, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Medina County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 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 252013 FFWCLE OHC005-033-075-083-103-117-139-169-260015- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 410 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 815 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...ASHLAND COUNTY...CRAWFORD COUNTY...HOLMES COUNTY ...KNOX COUNTY...MEDINA COUNTY...MORROW COUNTY...RICHLAND COUNTY ...WAYNE COUNTY AT 410 PM...RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW RAIN FALLING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO. POLICE REPORTS INDICATE THAT SMALL STREAMS CONTINUE OUT OF THEIR BANKS WITH STANDING WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS. HENCE...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE AFOREMENTIONED COUNTIES. THE RAIN WILL SLOWLY END THIS EVENING. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Hancock, Seneca, Wood | 3 hr |
| May 25, 7:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Henry | 3 hr |
| May 25, 8:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Huron | 3 hr |
| May 25, 9:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Lorain, Medina, Richland, Wayne | 3 hr |
| May 25, 9:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit | 3 hr |
| May 25, 9:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 3 hr |
| May 25, 11:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Holmes, Knox | 3 hr |
| May 25, 11:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Morrow | 3 hr |
| May 25, 2:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 3 hr |
| May 25, 2:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Holmes | 3 hr |
| May 25, 4:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Holmes, Knox, Wayne | 4 hr |
| May 25, 4:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford, Morrow, Richland | 4 hr |
| May 25, 4:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Hancock, Wyandot | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.