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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 16, 1998Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Apr 16, 1998, 9:16 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 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
Apr 16, 1998, 9:16 PM EDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired
Apr 17, 1998, 12:15 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 1998-04-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 49 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 1998-04-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 155 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
198 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 170117
FFWCLE
OHC035-170415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
916 PM EDT THU APR 16 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS FOR...
  CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO

* UNTIL 1215 AM EDT

* AT 915 PM EDT...CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN FROM THE EASTERN SUBURBS
  OF CLEVELAND WESTWARD TO LORAIN COUNTY.

* THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN
  HOUR AND MAY PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO TWO INCHES.

.DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!

BARJENBRUCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 16, 8:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELorain3 hr
Apr 16, 8:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHuron3 hr
Apr 16, 10:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMedina3 hr
Apr 16, 10:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEGeauga, Summit3 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.