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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 16, 1998Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1998, 3:52 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. 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, 3:52 PM EDT (19:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1998, 6:55 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Erie County, PA

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 146 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
724 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 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 161954
FFWCLE
PAC049-162255-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS FOR...
  ERIE COUNTY PA IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 655 PM EDT

* AN AREA OF THUDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST ACROSS ERIE COUNTY. RAIN IN
  .
  EXCESS OF TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE LAKESHORE. URBAN AND
  SMALL STREAM FLOODING IS LIKELY TO OCCUR THROUGH 630 PM.

*

.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 16, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie60 min
Jun 16, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie49 min
Jun 16, 4:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECrawford2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 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.