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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 9, 2001Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2001, 7:20 PM EDT for Holmes 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 9, 2001, 7:20 PM EDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2001, 9:20 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Holmes County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2001-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1744 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 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
1744 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 092319
FFWCLE
OHC075-100115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
720 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 920 PM EDT

* AT 715 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED...
  A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WILL MOVE OVER THE AREA DURING THE
  NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY
  DOWNPOURS WITH RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES AN HOUR. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  MILLERSBURG
  KILLBUCK
  GLENMONT

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

$$

LOMBARDY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain51 min
Aug 9, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark64 min
Aug 9, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit64 min
Aug 9, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage58 min
Aug 9, 5:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark42 min
Aug 9, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes59 min
Aug 9, 6:16 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark119 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.