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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 15, 2004Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2004, 5:02 PM EDT for Holmes 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 2004, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2004, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
4 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 21:02 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, 9.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2004-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 372 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 2004-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 152104
FFWCLE
OHC075-160100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 457 PM EDT...FLOODING WAS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 
THROUGHOUT MUCH OF HOLMES COUNTY OHIO WITH MANY ROADS AND SMALL 
STREAMS FLOODED. THE WALNUT CREEK AREA IN EASTERN HOLMES COUNTY HAS 
BEEN PARTICULARLY HARDHIT AS SOME BUILDINGS HAVE BECOME FLOODED. 

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

<<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 160106
FFSCLE
OHC075-160200-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
903 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 2004

A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR HOLMES COUNTY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED.

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED FOR THE TIME BEING AND SOME CREEKS AND 
ROADS MAY STILL BE FLOODED BUT THE WATER WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY 
RECEDE. AROUND SUNSET SOME ROADS WERE STILL CLOSED IN HOLMES COUNTY. 
MORE RAIN WILL BE MOVING BACK INTO THE AREA LATER TONIGHT AND 
CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY. MORE FLOODING MAY OCCUR.

PEOPLE IN HOLMES COUNTY NEED TO BE ALERT FOR THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE 
RAIN AND FLOODING TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.

$$
KIELTYKA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox36 min
Jun 15, 2:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.