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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 12, 1998Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 1998, 6:41 PM EDT for Wood County, Ohio. It was in force for 119 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 1998, 6:41 PM EDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1998, 8:40 PM EDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1998-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1998-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 127 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 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 122243
FFWCLE
OHC173-130040-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
641 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 840 PM EDT

* AT 635 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN
  INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN
  WOOD COUNTY.  THIS LINE HAS PRODUCED MORE THAN ONE INCH
  NEAR WOODVILLE IN FAR NORTWEST SANDUSKY COUNTY. RAIN IN
  EXCESS OF TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE AS THIS LINE MOVES EAST.

*

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

&

RINGO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 5:23 PM EDTTornado WarningCLELucas47 min
Jun 12, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood63 min
Jun 12, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa63 min
Jun 12, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky50 min
Jun 12, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock, Seneca61 min
Jun 12, 6:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron60 min
Jun 12, 7:06 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEErie49 min
Jun 12, 7:09 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESeneca51 min
Jun 12, 7:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot64 min
Jun 12, 7:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain79 min
Jun 12, 7:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford61 min
Jun 12, 7:48 PM EDTTornado WarningCLELorain47 min
Jun 12, 7:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga95 min
Jun 12, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Richland2 hr

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.