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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 16, 1998Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1998, 3:17 PM EDT for Holmes 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
Jun 16, 1998, 3:17 PM EDT (19:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1998, 6:20 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 1998-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 419 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 1998-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 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
419 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 161918
FFWCLE
OHC075-162220-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
317 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 620 PM EDT

* AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PERSIST OVER PORTIONS
  OF HOLMES COUNTY UNTIL ABOUT 430PM.  THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE
  RAIN IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES BEFORE MOVING OUT OF THE AREA. THIS WILL
  LIKELY PRODUCE FLOODING OF SOME SMALL STREAMS IN HOLMES THROUGH
  EARLY EVENING.

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

RINGO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 9:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes58 min
Jun 15, 10:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes61 min
Jun 15, 11:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes2 hr
Jun 16, 2:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula, Lake47 min
Jun 16, 2:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox60 min
Jun 16, 3:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes50 min
Jun 16, 4:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark61 min
Jun 16, 5:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark117 min
Jun 16, 6:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELorain95 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.