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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 23, 2000Huron County, Seneca County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 2000, 7:14 PM EDT for Huron County, Seneca 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 23, 2000, 7:14 PM EDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2000, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Huron County, OH, Seneca County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 2000-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2000-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-201 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 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 232317
FFWCLE
OHC077-147-240115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
714 PM EDT WED AUG 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HURON COUNTY IN OHIO...
  SENECA COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* AT 712 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED...THUNDERSTORMS WITH 
HEAVY RAIN STILL AFFECTING SENECA AND HURON COUNTIES IN A SMALL AREA 
BETWEEN BLOOMVILLE AND WILLARD.  RADAR INDICATES THAT UP TO 4 INCHES 
OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 430 PM IN THIS AREA.  ADDITIONAL STORMS AREA 
DEVELOPING AND MOVING TOWARD THIS AREA AND WILL LIKELY CAUSE 
FLOODING TO DEVELOP WITH UP TO ANOTHER INCH OF RAIN POSSIBLE.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  WILLARD
  BLOOMVILLE

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.
$$

ADAMS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland54 min
Aug 23, 6:20 PM EDTTornado WarningCLERichland40 min
Aug 23, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland38 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.