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Flash Flood Warning 78, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 10, 1998Medina County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 1998, 10:14 AM EDT for Medina County, Summit 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
Aug 10, 1998, 10:14 AM EDT (14:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 1998, 1:10 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Medina County, OH, Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:17 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 157 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 560 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1998-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
560 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 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 101416
FFWCLE
OHC035-055-085-103-153-101710-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION/IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1014 AM EDT MON AUG 10 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS FOR...
  CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO
  GEAUGA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO
  LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO
  MEDINA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO
  SUMMIT COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO

* UNTIL 110 PM EDT

* SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DUMPED UP 2 OF INCHES RAIN SINCE 7AM.
THIS HAS CAUSE SOME FLOODING IN MEDINA AND CUYAHOGA COUNTIES.  A
PORTION  OF I-77 IN SOUTHERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY HAS BEEN REPORTED CLOSED
.DUE TO  THE HIGH WATER.  THESES SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST
ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF
ONE TO TWO INCHES IS POSSIBLE.

RINGO*

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
Aug 10, 7:46 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula, Trumbull3 hr
Aug 10, 10:14 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga, Lake3 hr
Aug 10, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Richland49 min
Aug 10, 7:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHancock2 hr

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.