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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 21, 20036 counties in Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 2003, 7:21 PM EDT for 6 counties in 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 21, 2003, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2003, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Medina County, OH, Portage County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 1009 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 823 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 212325
FFWCLE
OHC007-055-103-133-153-155-220145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
721 PM EDT MON JUL 21 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ASHTABULA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
  GEAUGA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
  MEDINA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
  PORTAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
  SUMMIT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
  TRUMBULL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 712 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND 
THUNDERSTORMS FROM MEDINA COUNTY ACROSS MUCH OF SUMMIT COUNTY INTO 
PORTAGE AND TRUMBULL COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL STORMS WILL ALSO MOVE 
ACROSS GEAUGA AND ASHTABULA COUNTY THIS EVENING. THE STORMS WERE 
MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  AKRON
  CORTLAND
  CUYAHOGA FALLS
  GARRETTSVILLE
  HUDSON
  KENT
  MANTUA
  MEDINA
  MIDDLEFIELD
  ORWELL
  RAVENNA
  STREETSBORO
  TALLMADGE
  WARREN
  WEST FARMINGTON
  BRISTOLVILLE
  NORTH BLOOMFIELD
  KINSMAN

RESIDENTS IN LOW LYING AREAS AND ALONG WATERWAYS SHOULD BE PREPARED 
TO EVACUATE AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE 
INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.

$$

KOSARIK

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 220113
FFSCLE
OHC103-133-153-155-220200-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
910 PM EDT MON JUL 21 2003

FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM FOR MEDINA...  
SUMMIT...PORTAGE...GEAUGA...ASHTABULA AND TRUMBULL COUNTIES. THE 
FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS MAY HAVE TO BE EXTENDED.

HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED FROM NEAR AKRON ACROSS PORTAGE COUNTY INTO 
TRUMBULL COUNTY THIS EVENING. SIGNIFICANT FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED 
ACROSS PARTS OF THE AKRON KENT AND WARREN AREAS.

FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN SILVER LAKE IN SUMMIT COUNTY WHERE SOME 
HOMES WERE BEING EVACUATED. FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED IN STOW WITH 
CARS UNDER WATER. HOMES WERE FLOODED ON THE EAST SIDE OF WARREN.

RESIDENTS NEAR WATERWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD EVACUATE IF 
RISING WATER OCCURS. NEVER DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS. BE 
ESPECIALLY CAREFUL IN THE DARK...IT MAY BE HARDER TO RECOGNIZE WATER 
DEPTH AND DANGER.
$$

KOSARIK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 2:10 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		110 min
Jul 21, 2:10 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		110 min
Jul 21, 2:10 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		110 min
Jul 21, 5:23 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 21, 5:23 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 21, 8:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Wyandot	50 min
Jul 21, 8:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	38 min
Jul 21, 9:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	44 min
Jul 21, 9:17 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	43 min
Jul 21, 9:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	50 min
Jul 21, 9:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	41 min
Jul 21, 9:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	46 min
Jul 21, 10:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	52 min
Jul 21, 1:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	49 min
Jul 21, 1:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Trumbull	3 hr
Jul 21, 1:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Trumbull	24 min
Jul 21, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 21, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 21, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	46 min
Jul 21, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	49 min
Jul 21, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 21, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	40 min
Jul 21, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	46 min
Jul 21, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	49 min
Jul 21, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark, Summit	43 min
Jul 21, 7:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Stark	37 min
Jul 21, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	46 min
Jul 21, 7:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Trumbull	35 min
Jul 21, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 21, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	49 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2003 Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.