Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 2003, 6:23 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. 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 31, 2003, 6:23 PM EDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2003, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, PA
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KCLE 312228 FFWCLE PAC049-010130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 623 PM EDT THU JUL 31 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 930 PM EDT * AT 620 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...MOVING ACROSS ERIE COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED FROM 1.5 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN MAINLY NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ERIE COUNTY SINCE 515 PM. SINCE GROUND IN THE AREA IS ALREADY SATURATED... THIS IS ENOUGH TO START FLOODING ALONG CREEKS AND STREAMS. ALSO 1.75 INCHES OF RAIN WAS MEASURED IN LAWRENCE PARK WHICH RESULTED IN SOME MINOR FLOODING THERE. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... WATTSBURG NORTH EAST FAIRVIEW DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN PLAY NEAR DRAINAGE DITCHES, STORM SEWERS OR STREAMS. 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KCLE 312333 FFSCLE PAC049-010030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 725 PM EDT THU JUL 31 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 930 PM EDT... AT 725 PM...RADAR SHOWED MOST OF THE HEAVIER RAIN WAS MOVING OFFSHORE FROM ERIE COUNTY. ESTIMATES SHOWS AROUND 2 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN IN SOME LOCATIONS. ROADS HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO BE FLOODED AROUND MILLCREEK AND IN NORTHEAST...WHERE A ROAD WAS REPORTED TO BE WASHED OUT ACCORDING TO THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT. ACCORDING TO RADAR...ERIE COUNTY SHOULD SEE A BREAK IN RAINFALL FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO BEFORE MORE SHOWERS OR STORMS POSSIBLY RETURN LATER TONIGHT. FLOODED AREAS WILL TAKE AN HOUR OR TWO FOR THE FLOOD WATERS TO RECEDE SO USE CAUTION IN THE AREAS WHERE HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURRED. NEVER DRIVE OR WALK THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK AND THE CURRENT MAY BE STRONGER THAN YOU THINK. $$ ADAMS
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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.