Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2003, 4:36 PM EDT for Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 114 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2003, 4:36 PM EDT (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2003, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richland County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KCLE 022037 FFWCLE OHC139-022230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 436 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RICHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 434 PM EDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLOODING ESPECIALLY IN MANSFIELD. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... BELLVILLE LEXINGTON MANSFIELD ONTARIO SHELBY PEOPLE SHOULD NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED STREETS THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK. THE HEAVY RAIN IS DECREASING AND THE FLOOD WATERS WILL SLOWLY DECREASE THROUGH THE EVENING. $$ FMK
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KCLE 022130 FFSCLE OHC139-022230- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 527 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2003 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR RICHLAND COUNTY TILL 630 PM EDT... AT 525 PM DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING MORE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL RICHLAND COUNTY INCLUDING THE MANSFIELD AND ONTARIO AREAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DUMP ANOTHER INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN. THIS WILL CAUSE MORE FLOODING OF ROADS AND STREAMS. PEOPLE SHOULD NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS AS THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK. THE HEAVY RAIN SHOULD MOVE OUT OF RICHLAND COUNTY BY 630 PM. $$ KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 8:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 2, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 53 min |
| Aug 2, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 2, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 6:56 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 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.