Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2003, 3:33 PM EDT for Portage County, Trumbull County, Ohio; Crawford County, Pennsylvania. 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, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2003, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Portage County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Crawford County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KCLE 221934 FFWCLE OHC133-155-PAC039-222330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 333 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PORTAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO... TRUMBULL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 324 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE COUNTIES. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVIEST SUSTAINED RAINFALL HAS DIMINISHED...RUNOFF AND SIGNIFICANT FLOODING FROM PREVIOUS HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE FOR SOME TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... CORTLAND GARRETTSVILLE KENT NEWTON FALLS RAVENNA WARREN MEADVILLE COCHRANTON TITUSVILLE 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. $$
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, 11:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit, Trumbull, Wayne | 4 hr |
| 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 21, 8:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 6 hr |
| Jul 22, 12:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 4 hr |
| Jul 22, 2:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 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.