Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 74, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 1998, 10:33 PM EDT for Lorain 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
- Jul 21, 1998, 10:33 PM EDT (02:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1998, 1:35 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- 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 02:35 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 220232 FFWCLE OHC093-220535- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1033 PM EDT TUE JUL 21 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS FOR... LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO * UNTIL 135 AM EDT * AS OF 1030 PM EDT...THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN THE CITY OF AMHERST IN LORAIN COUNTY. CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS LORAIN COUNTY THROUGH MIDNIGHT. * DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOOD WATERS THREATEN. BARJENBRUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 64 min |
| Jul 21, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake | 61 min |
| Jul 21, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 64 min |
| Jul 21, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 64 min |
| Jul 21, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 65 min |
| Jul 21, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 50 min |
| Jul 21, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 62 min |
| Jul 21, 9:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 65 min |
| Jul 21, 9:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 64 min |
| Jul 21, 9:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wood | 64 min |
| Jul 21, 9:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky | 62 min |
| Jul 21, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Seneca | 62 min |
| Jul 21, 10:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 65 min |
| Jul 21, 10:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 47 min |
| Jul 21, 10:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 62 min |
| Jul 21, 11:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lorain | 51 min |
| Jul 21, 11:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina | 62 min |
| Jul 21, 11:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Holmes, Knox, Richland | 62 min |
| Jul 21, 11:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 62 min |
| Jul 21, 11:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit | 60 min |
| Jul 22, 12:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 61 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.