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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 27, 2000Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2000, 6:25 PM EDT for Stark 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, 6:25 PM EDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Stark County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 2000-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
850 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
17 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 272229 COR
FFWCLE
OHC151-280030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  STARK COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 620 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED...A THUNDERSTORM 
  WITH EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN IN THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF THE COUNTY.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  CANAL FULTON
  NORTH LAWRENCE

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

$$
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CORRECTED TO MENTION STORM LOCATION.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 3:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain2 hr
Jul 27, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain, Medina64 min

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.