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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 21, 2001Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 21, 2001, 7:31 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 119 min. 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 21, 2001, 7:31 PM EDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired
May 21, 2001, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 2001-05-21Temperature 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 2001-05-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 210 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
693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
210 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 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 212333
FFWCLE
OHC035-220130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
731 PM EDT MON MAY 21 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 725 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH 
VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO CUYAHOGA COUNTY.  THESE STORMS ARE 
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  STRONGSVILLE
  SOLON
  PARMA
  NORTH ROYALTON
  LAKEWOOD
  CLEVELAND HEIGHTS
  CLEVELAND

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.

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
May 21, 4:51 PM EDTTornado WarningCLELorain, Medina39 min
May 21, 5:43 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEMedina32 min
May 21, 7:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes28 min
May 21, 7:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark61 min
May 21, 7:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEMedina114 min
May 21, 7:54 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEStark51 min
May 21, 7:59 PM EDTTornado WarningCLESummit46 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.