Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Cleveland, OH

Issued

Aug 4, 2003, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)

Expired

Aug 4, 2003, 8:45 PM EDT

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Cleveland, OH

Area

Whole counties

County Wood County, OH

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WGUS51 KCLE 042040
FFWCLE
OHC173-050045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO...

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 436 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED...A BAND OF 
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING NORTH THROUGH THE 
CENTRAL PART OF WOOD COUNTY NEAR BOWLING GREEN.  SEVERAL INCHES OF 
RAINFALL MAY OCCUR QUICKLY WITH THESE STORMS THROUGH 530 PM AND WILL 
LIKELY LEAD TO RAPID FLOODING.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  BOWLING GREEN

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.

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.
$$
ADAMS

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 042354
FFSCLE
OHC063-173-050145-

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

FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR WOOD COUNTY TIL 845 PM EDT.

FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR HANCOCK COUNTY TIL 915 PM EDT.

RAINFALL IN SOME LOCATIONS MAY HAVE BEEN OVER 3 INCHES THIS 
AFTERNOON. THE WATER WAS SLOWLY RECEDING. 

IN HANCOCK COUNTY THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OVER THE EXTREME NORTHERN 
PORTION OF THE COUNTY.

PEOPLE SHOULD NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS...AS THE WATER MAY BE 
DEEPER THAN YOU THINK.
$$

KIELTYKA

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.