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Flash Flood Warning 58, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1998, 4:49 PM EDT for Knox County, Morrow County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 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 27, 1998, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1998, 6:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Knox County, OH, Morrow County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2641 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 272050 FFWCLE OHC083-117-272250- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 449 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS FOR... KNOX COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO MORROW COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 650 PM EDT * AT 445 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER KNOX AND MORROW COUNTIES. * RADAR INDICATED THAT INCH TO A HALF INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THESE COUNTIES. WITH ALL THE RAIN THAT HAS FALLEN OVER THESE TWO COUNTIES IN THE PAST 24 HOURS. FLOODING OF SMALL STREAM AND LOW LYING AREA WILL OCCUR. IF YOU LIVE NEAR A STREAM OR CREEK...GO TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH. WSF
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 11:23 AM EDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-281200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1123 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER NORTHERN OHIO AND ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WITH A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP. A WEAK STATIONARY FRONT DRAPED ACROSS THE REGION WILL FOCUS THE THUNDERSTORMS ACTIVITY. ANY SEVERE WEATHER WILL MOST LIKELY BE IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WIND OR LARGE HAIL. THE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN. SKYWARN ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BY MID AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. BARJENBRUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 57 min |
| Jun 27, 1:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 2:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Morrow | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 4:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Richland | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 8:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 10:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 4:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Huron | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Ottawa, Wood | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Wayne | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 4:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 5:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Seneca | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 5:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Crawford | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Stark | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 6:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Stark | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 6:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 64 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.