Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 2004, 2:04 AM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, 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
- May 22, 2004, 2:04 AM EDT (06:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2004, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Medina County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:08 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KCLE 220605 FFWCLE OHC035-093-103-221000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 204 AM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO... MEDINA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO... * UNTIL 600 AM EDT * AT 157 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORM FROM LORAIN COUNTY INTO THE GREATER CLEVELAND AREA AND NORTHERN MEDINA COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... AMHERST AVON LAKE BRUNSWICK CLEVELAND ELYRIA LAKEWOOD LORAIN MEDINA NORTH RIDGEVILLE NORTH ROYALTON PARMA STRONGSVILLE VERMILION 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. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KCLE 220614 FFSCLE OHC035-153-220915- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 210 AM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR SUMMIT COUNTY UNTIL 6 AM... THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING OVER SUMMIT COUNTY AGAIN. FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN STOW. SOME OTHER LOCATIONS THAT COULD BE AFFECTED BY FLOODING INCLUDE AKRON...CUYAHOGA FALLS... HUDSON...MACEDONIA...MOGADORE...TALLMADGE AND TWINSBURG. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. THE STORMS WILL TAPER OFF DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS BUT FLOODING AND PONDING OF WATER COULD LINGER TO DAYBREAK OR LONGER.
000 WGUS71 KCLE 221009 FFSCLE OHC035-093-103-153-221100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 605 AM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LORAIN...CUYAHOGA...SUMMIT AND MEDINA COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED... AT 600 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH BROUGHT HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING ACROSS THE REGION HAD MOVED EAST AND WEAKENED. THIS BREAK IN THE RAIN WILL ALLOW THE FLOOD WATERS TO BEGIN TO RECEED DURING THE MORNING HOURS. THERE IS STILL A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE DAY. SINCE THE GROUND IS SATURATED...ANY HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING. RESIDENTS IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 12:13 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| May 22, 12:13 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| May 22, 12:13 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| May 22, 12:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 65 min |
| May 22, 12:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 55 min |
| May 22, 1:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 60 min |
| May 22, 1:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 41 min |
| May 22, 1:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 61 min |
| May 22, 1:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 54 min |
| May 22, 1:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Summit | 4 hr |
| May 22, 2:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage | 4 hr |
| May 22, 3:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 4 hr |
| May 22, 2:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 30 min |
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.