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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Cleveland, OH

January 8, 1998Hancock County, Sandusky County, Seneca County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jan 8, 1998, 12:22 AM EST for Hancock County, Sandusky County, Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 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
Jan 8, 1998, 12:22 AM EST (05:22 UTC)
Expired
Jan 8, 1998, 4:30 AM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hancock County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 00:00Z on 1998-01-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1998-01-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
461 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 7, 7:34 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEErie, Huron, Lorain4 hr
Jan 7, 7:34 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Medina4 hr
Jan 7, 9:21 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes, Stark4 hr
Jan 7, 9:21 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEMahoning, Portage, Trumbull4 hr
Jan 7, 9:21 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula4 hr
Jan 8, 12:22 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEFulton, Henry4 hr
Jan 8, 12:22 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEOttawa4 hr
Jan 8, 12:28 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEHancock, Henry, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca and 1 more4 hr
Jan 8, 5:57 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark3 hr

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.