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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 4, 2003Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2003, 3:44 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 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: Aug 4, 2003, 3:44 PM EDT (19:44 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2003, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 2 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 19:47 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, 7.7 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: 185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 742 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 041946
FFWCLE
OHC151-042145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
344 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 342 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED..

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  ALLIANCE
  LOUISVILLE

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 LET YOUR CHILDREN PLAY NEAR DRAINAGE DITCHES, STORM SEWERS OR
STREAMS.

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 042129
FFSCLE
OHC151-042330-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
524 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2003

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR STARK COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

AT 525 PM NO FLOODING WAS REPORTED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 
AND THE STORMS THAT CAUSED THE WARNING TO BE ISSUED HAVE WEAKENED.
$$

KIELTYKA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 11:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	59 min
Aug 3, 11:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		113 min
Aug 3, 11:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		113 min
Aug 4, 1:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Wood	34 min
Aug 4, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Aug 4, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		116 min
Aug 4, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		116 min
Aug 4, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		116 min
Aug 4, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	33 min
Aug 4, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		117 min
Aug 4, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		117 min
Aug 4, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		117 min
Aug 4, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wood	56 min
Aug 4, 4:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Wood	4 hr
Aug 4, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lake	63 min
Aug 4, 5:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Hancock	3 hr
Aug 4, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Seneca	64 min
Aug 4, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		118 min
Aug 4, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		118 min
Aug 4, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	58 min
Aug 4, 6:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Seneca	4 hr
Aug 4, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	55 min
Aug 4, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	26 min
Aug 4, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	67 min

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.