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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 15, 2004Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2004, 2:34 PM EDT for Holmes 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2004, 2:34 PM EDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2004, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 372 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 849 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 151835
FFWCLE
OHC075-152130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
ISSUED BY NWS PITTSBURGH PA
234 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HOLMES COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 230 PM EDT...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED FROM

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...KILLBUCK AND   
MILLERSBURG...AND WALNUT CREEK.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>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.

PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772.

LAT...LON 4067 8219 4066 8165 4063 8165 4063 8167
      4045 8167 4045 8217 4057 8218 4058 8221
      4057 8221 4066 8222

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 151939
FFSCLE
OHC075-152130-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
ISSUED BY NWS PITTSBURGH PA
339 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 2004


...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR HOLMES COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM 
EDT...

NOAA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING TO 
CAUSE HEAVY RAIN OVER HOLMES COUNTY OHIO...AS MORE STORMS ARE MOVING 
ACROSS THE COUNTY FROM WEST TO EAST. THE HARDEST HIT AREA HAS BEEN 
OVER EASTERN HOLMES COUNTY AND INCLUDES THE WALNUT CREEK AREA. 

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.


$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	36 min
Jun 15, 5:02 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Holmes	4 hr

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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.