Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2004, 4:36 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. 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
- May 10, 2004, 4:36 PM EDT (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2004, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, PA
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 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 102039 FFWCLE PAC049-102330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 436 PM EDT MON MAY 10 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 431 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED...A SMALL CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS SLOWLY MOVING EAST ACROSS INLAND ERIE COUNTY BETWEEN EDINBORO...WATERFORD AND MILL VILLAGE. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT AROUND 3 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN IN THIS AREA FROM THE STORMS SINCE 4 PM. AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAINFALL MAY OCCUR IN THIS AREA THROUGH 5 PM. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... CORRY EDINBORO UNION CITY WATERFORD WATTSBURG 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. $$ ADAMS
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KCLE 102341 FFSCLE PAC049-110030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 737 PM EDT MON MAY 10 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA... SOME WATER MAY STILL BE OVER ROADS IN SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA AND SOME STREAMS MAY BE OUT OF THEIR BANKS. HOWEVER THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED SO THE HIGH WATER WILL SLOWLY RECEDE. HOWEVER...PEOPLE SHOULD NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS AS THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK AND STAY AWAY FROM FLOODED STREAMS. $$ KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 61 min |
| May 10, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 62 min |
| May 10, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 64 min |
| May 10, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 62 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.