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Flash Flood Warning 62, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 12, 1997Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 1997, 1:36 PM EDT for Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 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 12, 1997, 1:36 PM EDT (17:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1997, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:39 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 163 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1997-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 154 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1997-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 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
154 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 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 121740
FFWCLE
OHC055-085-121945-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
136 PM EDT THU JUN 12 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...GEAUGA COUNTY...LAKE COUNTY
 
PERSISTENT THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED TORRENTIAL RAINS OVER EXTREME
NORTHERN GEAUGA AND SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON. RADAR
RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN NEAR
ROUTE 44 ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF CHARDON.
 
MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER THIS REGION AND WILL LIKELY
PRODUCE FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEfHICLE 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.
 
LAPLANTE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 3:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLETrumbull84 min

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.