Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 2003, 6:55 PM EDT for Trumbull 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 29, 2003, 6:55 PM EDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2003, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 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 22:56 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, 10.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KCLE 292256 FFWCLE OHC155-300300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 655 PM EDT FRI AUG 29 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... TRUMBULL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO... * UNTIL 1100 PM EDT * AT 646 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED.. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... CORTLAND HUBBARD LORDSTOWN NILES WARREN SOME FLOODING OF ROADS HAVE BEEN REPORTED SO FAR. 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 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. $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KCLE 300001 FFSCLE OHC155-300045- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 752 PM EDT FRI AUG 29 2003 A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR TRUMBULL COUNTY TILL 11 PM EDT. AT 745 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF TRUMBULL COUNTY. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE RAIN SHOULD MOVE OUT OF TRUMBULL COUNTY BY 9 PM. WIDESPREAD STREET AND STREAM FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED OVER TRUMBULL COUNTY MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHERN THIRD. WATER ON MANY ROADS WAS UP TO THE FLOOR BOARDS ON VEHICLES. A SPOTTER 3 MILES WEST OF WARREN REPORTED 2.75 INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN 3 PM AND 7 PM AND MOST OF THAT RAIN FELL SINCE 6 PM. AT THE TRUMBULL COUNTY AIRPORT NEAR VIENNA ONLY .31 INCHES OF RAIN FELL SO FAR THIS EVENING. PEOPLE SHOULD NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK. KIDS SHOULD NOT PLAY IN FLOODED ROADS OR DITCHES. $$ KIELTYKA
000 WGUS71 KCLE 300048 FFSCLE OHC155-300245- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 845 PM EDT FRI AUG 29 2003 A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR TRUMBULL COUNTY TILL 11 PM EDT. DOPPLER RADAR AT 835 PM SHOWED THAT THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAD MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY. EVEN THOUGH THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE ENDED MANY ROADS AND SOME STREAMS ARE STILL FLOODED OVER THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF THE COUNTY AND THE WATER IS SLOWLY RECEDING. A SPOTTER A FEW MILES WEST OF WARREN NEAR LEAVITTSBURG REPORTED 2.9 INCHES OF RAIN FROM 3 PM TO 830 PM. OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN AN HOUR OR LESS. THE YOUNGSTOWN AIRPORT NEAR VIENNA REPORTED ALMOST AN INCH OF RAIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS AS THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK. $$ KIELTYKA
000 WGUS71 KCLE 300226 FFSCLE OHC155-300315- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1017 PM EDT FRI AUG 29 2003 THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR TRUMBULL COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 11 PM EDT. THE HEAVY RAIN THAT CAUSED THE FLOODING OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY HAS ENDED AND THE WATER WAS SLOWLY RECEDING FROM ROADS AND STREAMS. IN THE MEANTIME MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK. ALMOST 3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL AT LEAVITTSURG AND 2.5 INCHES IN HOWLAND TOWNSHIP AND 1.3 INCHES AT THE YOUNGSTOWN REGIONAL AIRPORT IN VIENNA. $$ KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 1:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 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.