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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 6, 2003Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 6, 2003, 1:23 PM EDT for Trumbull 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 6, 2003, 1:23 PM EDT (17:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 2003, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2003-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 139 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2003-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
139 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 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 061726 CCA
FFWCLE
OHC155-062030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
123 PM EDT WED AUG 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT

* AT 114 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED...A CLUSTER OF       
  THUNDERSTORMS OVER TRUMBULL COUNTY MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST.        
  LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE 
  COUNTY.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  CORTLAND
  WARREN
  BRISTOLVILLE
  LEAVITTSBURG

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.

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.

$$

LOMBARDY

CORRECTED TO ADD MENTION OF RADAR INDICATION.
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS71 KCLE 061928
FFSCLE
OHC155-062030-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
327 PM EDT WED AUG 6 2003

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR TRUMBULL COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

FLOODING RAINS FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS CAUSED FLOODING ON PARKMAN 
ROAD NEAR LEAVITTSBURG.  THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT CAUSED THE FLOODING 
HAVE WEAKENED AND MOVED SOUTH OF TRUMBULL COUNTY.

THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
$$

LOMBARDY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 10:20 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE115 min
Aug 6, 10:20 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE115 min
Aug 6, 10:20 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE115 min
Aug 6, 10:20 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE115 min

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.