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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 22, 20034 counties in Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2003, 11:44 AM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 4 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 22, 2003, 11:44 AM EDT (15:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2003, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Portage County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:47 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 264 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 221547
FFWCLE
OHC133-153-155-169-221945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1144 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PORTAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
  SUMMIT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
  TRUMBULL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* RADAR SHOWS NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFYING OVER 
THE WOOSTER TO YOUNGSTOWN REGION LATE THIS MORNING.  RAINFALL RATES 
ARE GRADUALLY INCREASING TO 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR.  HEAVY RAIN 
WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON AND FLASH 
FLOODING IS LIKELY.  RECENT HEAVY RAINS HAVE ALREADY SWOLLEN STREAM 
AND CREEKS AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CAUSE RAPID RISES.  

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  AKRON
  BARBERTON
  KENT
  NEWTON FALLS
  ORRVILLE
  RAVENNA
  STREETSBORO
  TALLMADGE
  WARREN
  NILES

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.

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.

$$
KUBINA

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 221829
FFSCLE
OHC169-221900-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
228 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WAYNE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM...

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WAYNE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED THE HEAVY RAIN OVER EASTERN
WAYNE COUNTY HAVE MOVED EAST.  DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR ESTIMATED
THAT 1 TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY.

A FEW REPORTS OF ROAD FLOODING IN THE COUNTY HAVE BEEN RECEIVED
...HOWEVER THE FLOODING THREAT FOR NOW HAS DECREASED.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO.  THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO 
PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN. RESIDENTS SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO WEATHER 
CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING. 

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 8:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 21, 9:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	41 min
Jul 21, 9:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Medina, Portage, Summit, Trumbull	5 hr
Jul 21, 9:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	25 min
Jul 22, 9:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	45 min
Jul 22, 12:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	38 min
Jul 22, 1:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	44 min
Jul 22, 3:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Portage, Trumbull	4 hr

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.