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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 28, 2000Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT for 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 28, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 2 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 21:16 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, 9.3 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 343 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 282115
FFWCLE
OHC093-282315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
515 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 510 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED...THAT OVER 2 INCHES 
OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AROUND LAGRANGE IN LORAIN COUNTY.  SLOW MOVING 
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA WILL LIKELY PRODUCE ANOTHER INCH OR TWO OF 
RAIN THROUGH 6 PM CAUSING FLOODING TO OCCUR IN LOW-LYING AREAS AND 
SMALL STREAMS.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  NORTH RIDGEVILLE
  GRAFTON
  ELYRIA

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE hINTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 9:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	42 min
Jul 28, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Wood	53 min
Jul 28, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	50 min
Jul 28, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	52 min
Jul 28, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	42 min
Jul 28, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga	48 min
Jul 28, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	43 min
Jul 28, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	44 min
Jul 28, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	49 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.