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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 5, 2003Medina County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2003, 5:05 PM EDT for Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 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, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2003, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Medina County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 052106
FFWCLE
OHC103-060100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
505 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 500 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING 
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERH HALF OF MEDINA COUNTY. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  BRUNSWICK
  LODI
  MEDINA
  WADSWORTH

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.

$$

KIELTYKA

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 060035
FFSCLE
OHC103-060130-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
833 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MEDINA COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

THE HEAVY RAINS THAT CAUSED SOME FLOODING AROUND THE CENTRAL PART OF 
MEDINA COUNTY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON HAS MOVED AWAY. THE HIGH 
WATER HAS RECEDED FROM MOST ROADS.
$$

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, 3:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland	3 hr
Aug 5, 4:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Lucas	3 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

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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.