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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 2, 1998Wyandot County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 1998, 7:43 PM EDT for Wyandot 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
May 2, 1998, 7:43 PM EDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 1998, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wyandot County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-05-02Temperature 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
724 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 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 022344
FFWCLE
OHC175-030145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
743 PM EDT SAT MAY 2 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS FOR...
  WYANDOT COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED THAT NEARLY TWO INCHES OF RAIN
  HAS FALLEN ACROSS A PORTION OF WYANDOT COUNTY FROM
  UPPER SANDUSKY TO NEAR WYANDOT.

* SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THIS AREA AND ANOTHER HALF AN
  INCH OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED BY 9 PM.

.DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN
AUTOMOBILES.

BARJENBRUCH

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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.