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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 27, 2003Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2003, 7:01 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 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 27, 2003, 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2003, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Stark County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -274 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 903 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 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 272304
FFWCLE
OHC151-280200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
701 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  STARK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT

* AT 653 PM EDT THE CANTON POLICE REPORTED FLOODING OVER CENTRAL 
PARTS OF STARK COUNTY BUT FLOODING IS LIKELY TO BE QUITE WIDESPREAD 
OVER TH COUNTY HEAVY RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES IN THE LAST HOUR 
IS THE PRIMARY CAUSE FOR THE FLOODING. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE 
COUNTY WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  CANTON
  LOUISVILLE
  MASSILLON
  NAVARRE
  NORTH CANTON

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 CAR THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. THE WATER DEPTH MAY 
BE DEEPER THAN IT APPEARS. STAY TUNED TO DEVELOPMENTS BY LISTENING TO
NOAA WEATHER RADIO.

FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES SO 
THAT THEY CAN FORWARD THEM TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 

$$

VRCEK

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 280202
FFSCLE
OHC151-280300-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
956 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR STARK COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

FLOODING DOES HOWEVER CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF THE COUNTY. SOME 
EVACUATIONS HAD TAKEN PLACE AND WATER IS STILL PONDED OVER SOME 
ROADWAYS. THE HEAVY RAINFALL THAT CAUSED THIS FLOODING HAS MOVED OFF 
TO THE EAST AND SOUTH AND OUT OF THE AREA. 

FLOOD WATERS WILL GRADUALLY RECEDE THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT. 
WATER THAT HAS PONDED OVER SOME ROADWAYS MAY LINGER THROUGH A GOOD 
PART OF THE NIGHT. 

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. THE WATER DEPTH MAY 
BE DEEPER THAN IT APPEARS. STAY TUNED TO DEVELOPMENTS BY LISTENING TO
NOAA WEATHER RADIO.

FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES SO 
THAT THEY CAN FORWARD THEM TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 

$$

VRCEK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 12:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 27, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock	43 min
Jul 27, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	62 min
Jul 27, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	52 min
Jul 27, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 27, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 27, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 27, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	47 min
Jul 27, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	65 min
Jul 27, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Portage, Trumbull	54 min
Jul 27, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 27, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 27, 7:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Trumbull	4 hr
Jul 27, 7:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Portage	4 hr

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.