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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 3, 1998Ashland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 1998, 7:14 PM EDT for Ashland 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
May 3, 1998, 7:14 PM EDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 1998, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ashland County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 190 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 1998-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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 1998-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 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 032315
FFWCLE
OHC005-040215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
714 PM EDT SUN MAY 3 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS FOR...
  ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT

* AT 712 PM EDT...CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT 2 INCHES
  OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS SOUTHERN ASHLAND COUNTY SINCE SHORTLY
  AFTER 6 PM.

* THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS ASHLAND
  COUNTY THROUGH AT LEAST 8 PM.  RAINFALL RATES IN EXCESS OF AN INCH
  IN AN HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STORMS.

.IF YOU LIVE NEAR A STREAM OR CREEK...GO TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER DRIVE
THROUGH WATER OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH.

BARJENBRUCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 4:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWood2 hr
May 3, 4:59 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHuron, Seneca3 hr
May 3, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox66 min
May 3, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood62 min

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.