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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 16, 1998Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1998, 6:40 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 95 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 16, 1998, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1998, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
95 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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 176 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 1998-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 226 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1998-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 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
226 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
773 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 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 162242
FFWCLE
OHC093-170005-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS FOR...
  NORTHERN LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTHERN LORAIN COUNTY.
  THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED UP TO ON INCH OF RAIN SINCE 6PM AND
  HAD RESULTED IN SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING IN THE CITY OF LORAIN.

* THE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST AND ADDITIONAL LOCAL
  FLOODING
  WILL BE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS.

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

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, 3:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes3 hr
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

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.