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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2000, 10:01 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania; Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 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, 10:01 PM EDT (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2000, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Crawford County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 1763 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1085 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KCLE 030203 FFWCLE OHC007-PAC039-030500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1001 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ASHTABULA COUNTY IN OHIO... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 100 AM EDT * AT 957 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN ASHTABULA COUNTY AND NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AND MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. SOME LOCATIONS IN THESE COUNTIES HAVE RECEIVED OVER 5 INCHES OF RAIN. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... LINESVILLE CONNEAUTVILLE CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS ORWELL JEFFERSON ASHTABULA ANDOVER 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 SAFEWLY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 9:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 9:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 11:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 54 min |
| Aug 3, 12:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 12:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 12:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 8:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 48 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.