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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 2, 2000Lucas County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2000, 7:27 PM EDT for Lucas 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
Aug 2, 2000, 7:27 PM EDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2000, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Lucas County, OH

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 2000-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1965 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2000-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 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
1965 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.6

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 022341 COR
FFWCLE

OHC095-030130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING-CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
733 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 715 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO LUCAS COUNTY.  
THESE STORMS HAVE THE ABILITY TO PRODUCE SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN IN A 
SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  TOLEDO
  SYLVANIA
  OREGON
  HOLLAND

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.

$$

GARNET
CORRECTED SOME CODING ERRORS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 12:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula41 min
Aug 2, 3:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula46 min
Aug 2, 4:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas, Wood47 min
Aug 2, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie43 min
Aug 2, 6:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas52 min
Aug 2, 7:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood40 min
Aug 2, 7:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa40 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.