Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Cleveland, OH

Issued

Aug 4, 2003, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)

Expired

Aug 4, 2003, 10:45 PM EDT

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Cleveland, OH

Area

Whole counties

County Seneca County, OH

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WGUS51 KCLE 042248
FFWCLE
OHC147-050245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT

* AT 641 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED...THAT OVER 2 INCHES 
OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AROUND BASCOM IN WESTERN SENECA COUNTY.  A 
THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IS OVER THIS AREA AND MAY PRODUCE 
UP TO ANOTHER INCH BEFORE IT MOVES EAST.  EXPECT RAPID RISES IN 
WATER IN LOW-LYING AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS LEADING TO FLOODING.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  BASCOM
  NEW RIEGEL
  TIFFIN

DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN PLAY NEAR DRAINAGE DITCHES, STORM SEWERS OR
STREAMS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.
$$
ADAMS

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 050106
FFSCLE
OHC147-050200-

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

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SENECA COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

AT 900 PM DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAD 
CAUSED THE HEAVY RAINS HAD MOVED EAST. SOME HIGH WATER WAS REPORTED 
ON ROADS AROUND BASCOM...WEST OF TIFFIN AT 7 PM. THAT HIGH WATER HAD 
RECEDED FROM MOST ROADS.

HOWEVER...IF MOTORISTS COME ACROSS A FLOODED ROADS DONT DRIVE 
THROUGH IT...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.