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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 27, 2000Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2000, 3:38 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Lorain 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
Jul 27, 2000, 3:38 PM EDT (19:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2000, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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 2000-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 616 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2000-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
616 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1015 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 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 
WGUS51 KCLE 271943 COR
FFWCLE
OHC035-093-272145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
338 PM EDT THU JUL 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN OHIO...
  LORAIN COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 331 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AT 340 PM DOPPLER 
RADAR WAS SHOWING HEAVY RAIN NEAR DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND. THE 
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE 
OVER CENTRAL LORAIN COUNTY.

FLOODING OF ROADS AND STREAMS MAY OCCUR. PEOPLE SHOULD NOT CROSS 
FLOODED ROADS.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  CLEVELAND
  OBERLIN
  WELLINGTON

$$
KIELTYKA
CORRECTED WORDING OF FORECAST.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain, Medina64 min
Jul 27, 6:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.