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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 1, 1997Ottawa County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 1997, 5:17 PM EDT for Ottawa 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
Jun 1, 1997, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1997, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ottawa County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 1997-06-01Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
515 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-69 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 012138
FFWCLE
OHC033-043-051-063-069-077-095-123-143-147-175-020115-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
517 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS EXTENDED THE
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...ERIE COUNTY...FULTON COUNTY
   ...HANCOCK COUNTY...HENRY COUNTY...HURON COUNTY...LUCAS COUNTY
   ...OTTAWA COUNTY...SANDUSKY COUNTY...SENECA COUNTY...WYANDOT COUNTY
 
AREAS OF RAIN CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND THAT COULD ADD TO THE
HIGH WATER THAT IS ON MANY ROADS. ALSO MANY STREAMS ARE STILL IN FLOOD
AND THIS ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL KEEP THEM IN FLOOD LONGER. FLOODING OF
ROADS AND STREAMS WILL CONTINUE.
 
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
Jun 1, 8:46 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie, Huron, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca, Wood5 hr
Jun 1, 8:46 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEFulton, Hancock, Henry, Lucas5 hr
Jun 1, 8:46 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLERichland5 hr
Jun 1, 8:52 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain, Medina, Summit5 hr
Jun 1, 8:52 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford, Wyandot5 hr
Jun 1, 8:52 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEKnox, Morrow5 hr
Jun 1, 8:52 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Holmes, Wayne5 hr
Jun 1, 9:02 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMarion5 hr
Jun 1, 11:38 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEGeauga, Portage, Stark2 hr
Jun 1, 11:38 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELake2 hr
Jun 1, 1:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMarion4 hr
Jun 1, 1:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford, Wyandot4 hr
Jun 1, 1:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Huron4 hr
Jun 1, 1:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELucas, Sandusky, Wood4 hr
Jun 1, 1:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Medina4 hr
Jun 1, 1:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes, Stark, Wayne4 hr
Jun 1, 1:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEGeauga, Lake, Portage4 hr
Jun 1, 1:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEFulton, Henry4 hr
Jun 1, 1:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMorrow4 hr
Jun 1, 1:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie, Lorain4 hr
Jun 1, 1:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHancock, Seneca4 hr
Jun 1, 1:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEKnox, Richland4 hr
Jun 1, 1:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEOttawa4 hr
Jun 1, 5:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEFulton, Hancock, Henry, Lucas4 hr
Jun 1, 5:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford, Erie, Huron, Sandusky, Seneca4 hr
Jun 1, 5:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWyandot4 hr
Jun 1, 5:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland, Holmes, Knox, Lorain, Medina4 hr
Jun 1, 5:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga, Portage4 hr
Jun 1, 5:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMarion, Morrow4 hr
Jun 1, 5:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELake4 hr
Jun 1, 5:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLERichland4 hr
Jun 1, 5:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark, Summit, Wayne4 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.