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Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 16, 1997Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 1997, 6:12 PM EDT for Trumbull 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: Aug 16, 1997, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 1997, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Trumbull County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2423 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 591 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 162213
FFWCLE
OHC155-170015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
612 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...TRUMBULL COUNTY
 
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING
ACROSS NORTHERN TRUMBULL COUNTY THROUGH 815 PM EDT. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL
OF OVER 2.50 INCHES IN THE PAST HOUR HAS OCCURRED.
 
 
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
 
MILLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 15, 8:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Henry	65 min
Aug 16, 2:06 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Stark	54 min
Aug 16, 7:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Fulton	53 min
Aug 16, 7:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Henry	49 min
Aug 16, 8:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	48 min
Aug 16, 8:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Fulton	59 min
Aug 16, 8:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Wood	59 min
Aug 16, 8:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	16 min
Aug 16, 9:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	55 min
Aug 16, 9:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	55 min
Aug 16, 9:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	53 min
Aug 16, 10:06 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	69 min
Aug 16, 10:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	36 min
Aug 16, 10:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga	56 min
Aug 16, 10:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	68 min
Aug 16, 11:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	64 min
Aug 16, 11:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	61 min
Aug 16, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	45 min
Aug 16, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	54 min
Aug 16, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	49 min
Aug 16, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	57 min
Aug 16, 4:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Lorain	33 min
Aug 16, 4:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Geauga	38 min
Aug 16, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	60 min
Aug 16, 4:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Lorain, Medina	55 min
Aug 16, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Fulton, Lucas	67 min
Aug 16, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes, Knox	62 min
Aug 16, 4:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Trumbull	45 min
Aug 16, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	61 min
Aug 16, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	59 min
Aug 16, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga, Lake	56 min
Aug 16, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	65 min
Aug 16, 5:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Lorain	2 hr
Aug 16, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	51 min
Aug 16, 5:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Medina	60 min
Aug 16, 5:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Trumbull	42 min
Aug 16, 5:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Medina	2 hr
Aug 16, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie	41 min
Aug 16, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron, Seneca	69 min
Aug 16, 6:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Summit	66 min
Aug 16, 6:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Trumbull	59 min
Aug 16, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	55 min
Aug 16, 6:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Lorain, Medina	60 min
Aug 16, 6:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Wayne	61 min
Aug 16, 6:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ashland	43 min
Aug 16, 7:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	55 min
Aug 16, 7:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Summit	48 min
Aug 16, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	45 min
Aug 16, 7:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ashland	49 min
Aug 16, 7:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland, Wayne	67 min
Aug 16, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox, Richland	64 min

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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.