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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Cleveland, OH

January 9, 19984 counties in Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jan 9, 1998, 12:12 AM EST for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 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
Jan 9, 1998, 12:12 AM EST (05:12 UTC)
Expired
Jan 9, 1998, 6:00 AM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ashland County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Knox County, OH, Wayne County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 00:00Z on 1998-01-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 598 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 00:00Z on 1998-01-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
598 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 090512
FFWCLE
OHC005-035-043-075-077-083-093-103-117-139-169-091100-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1212 AM EST FRI JAN 9 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...ASHLAND COUNTY...CUYAHOGA COUNTY...ERIE COUNTY
   ...HOLMES COUNTY...HURON COUNTY...KNOX COUNTY...LORAIN COUNTY
   ...MEDINA COUNTY...MORROW COUNTY...RICHLAND COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT 1210 AM DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN MOVING IN FROM
CENTRAL OHIO. RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD BE BETWEEN AN INCH AND A INCH AND A
HALF BY 4 AM. SINCE THE GROUND IS SATURATED THIS RAINFALL WILL CAUSE
FLOODING OF ROADS AND STREAMS. SOME BASEMENTS MAY ALSO FLOOD.
 
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
Jan 9, 12:12 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie, Huron, Lorain6 hr
Jan 9, 12:12 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Medina6 hr
Jan 9, 12:12 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEMorrow, Richland6 hr
Jan 9, 1:04 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark6 hr
Jan 9, 1:59 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEMahoning, Portage, Trumbull5 hr
Jan 9, 1:59 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula, Geauga, Lake5 hr
Jan 9, 1:59 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLESummit5 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.