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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 14, 2000Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 2000, 3:25 PM EDT for Stark 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: Jul 14, 2000, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Stark County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 102 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1313 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 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 141927
FFWCLE
OHC151-142130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
325 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 323 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED PERSISTENT HEAVY 
RAIN FROM SLOW MOVING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  ONE TO TWO INCHES OF 
RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON AND ANOTHER INCH OR TWO 
INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE BEFORE 5 PM.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  NORTH CANTON
  NAVARRE
  LOUISVILLE
  CANTON
  ALLIANCE

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.

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 WAyTERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.

$$

REL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 11:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lake	40 min
Jul 14, 11:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	55 min
Jul 14, 11:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga	47 min
Jul 14, 12:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina, Summit	50 min
Jul 14, 12:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	66 min
Jul 14, 12:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	49 min
Jul 14, 1:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	66 min
Jul 14, 1:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Summit	37 min
Jul 14, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Wyandot	63 min
Jul 14, 1:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Portage, Stark	52 min
Jul 14, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	40 min
Jul 14, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	32 min
Jul 14, 2:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Trumbull	42 min
Jul 14, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	65 min
Jul 14, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion, Morrow	64 min
Jul 14, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	54 min
Jul 14, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	67 min
Jul 14, 2:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Morrow	64 min
Jul 14, 2:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	46 min
Jul 14, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	53 min
Jul 14, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	64 min
Jul 14, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	61 min
Jul 14, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	63 min
Jul 14, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	63 min
Jul 14, 5:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Stark	3 hr
Jul 14, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron, Seneca	59 min
Jul 14, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	56 min
Jul 14, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Erie, Lorain	66 min
Jul 14, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	53 min
Jul 14, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Richland	60 min
Jul 14, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wyandot	65 min
Jul 14, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	56 min
Jul 14, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	66 min
Jul 14, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	60 min
Jul 14, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	57 min
Jul 14, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	66 min
Jul 14, 7:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Marion	41 min
Jul 14, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox, Richland	60 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.