Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2003, 3:56 PM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. 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
- Aug 5, 2003, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashland County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 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 051959 FFWCLE OHC005-052300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 356 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 356 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED.. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... HAYESVILLE POLK EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN PLAY NEAR DRAINAGE DITCHES, STORM SEWERS OR STREAMS. AREAS OF CONCERN WILL BE THE MOHICAN RIVER AND KATOTAWA CREEK AREAS. $$ LOMBARDY
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KCLE 052301 FFSCLE OHC005-060000- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 658 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003 THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ASHLAND COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. SOME FLOODING WAS REPORTED THROUGH 530 PM. THE HEAVY RAINS THAT PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY. THE WATER WAS SLOWLY RECEDING FROM ROADS AND STREAMS. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS AS THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK. $$ KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 66 min |
| Aug 5, 11:35 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 60 min | |
| Aug 5, 2:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 66 min | |
| Aug 5, 4:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lucas | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Medina | 4 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit | 66 min |
| Aug 5, 6:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.