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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 31, 2000Geauga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 2000, 7:56 PM EDT for Geauga 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
May 31, 2000, 7:56 PM EDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2000, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Geauga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 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 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 168 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
213 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 312357
FFWCLE
OHC055-010200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
756 PM EDT WED MAY 31 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT

* AT 752 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED FROM 1.5 TO 2 INCHES
  OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN FROM 7 UNTIL 750 PM THIS EVENING WITH LOCAL
  AMOUNTS NEAR CHESTERLAND OF OVER 2 INCHES.  THIS IS ENOUGH TO
  CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  CHESTERLAND
  CHARDON
  BURTON

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.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Summit38 min
May 31, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain37 min
May 31, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Geauga44 min
May 31, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage, Trumbull27 min
May 31, 7:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula64 min
May 31, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull48 min

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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.