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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2000, 3:08 PM EDT for Erie County, Sandusky County, Ohio. It was in force for 112 min. 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 29, 2000, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 112 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Erie County, OH, Sandusky County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KCLE 291908 FFWCLE OHC043-143-292100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 308 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN OHIO... SANDUSKY COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 300 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE ERIE AND SANDUSKY COUNTY LINE BETWEEN FREMONT AND CASTALIA. ESTIMATES FROM RADAR INDICATE THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL FOR THIS AREA SINCE 2 PM. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ANOTHER INCH OR SO IS EXPECTED THROUGH 4 PM WHICH WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING ON STREETS AND IN LOW-LYING AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... CASTALIA EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO 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. $$ ADAMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 12:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lucas | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Ottawa | 38 min |
| Jul 29, 1:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 47 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.