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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 17, 2004Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2004, 7:50 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 17, 2004, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2004, 11:45 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), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 1052 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 172351
FFWCLE
OHC075-180345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
750 PM EDT THU JUN 17 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1145 PM EDT

* AT 744 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO ACROSS HOLMES COUNTY.        
  RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD EXCEED 2 INCHES THIS EVENING AS THE         
  THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS THE COUNTY.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...GLENMONT...HOLMESVILLE...
  KILLBUCK...NASHVILLE...BERLIN...WINESBURG...WALNUT CREEK AND
  FARMERSTOWN...

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN
AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

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.

LAT...LON 4047 8189 4050 8215 4050 8215 4066 8213
      4066 8165 4055 8166 4054 8167 4045 8167
      4045 8177

$$
KIELTYKA

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 180345
FFSCLE
OHC075-180545-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1145 PM EDT THU JUN 17 2004

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR HOLMES COUNTY HAS EXPIRED. 

EVEN THOUGH THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE ENDED SOME ROADS ARE CLOSED FROM 
THE HEAVY RAIN EARLY THIS MORNING AND THIS EVENING. MANY CREEKS ARE 
HIGH. PEOPLE IN HOLMES COUNTY NEED TO CAREFUL NOT TO DRIVE ACROSS 
FLOODED ROADS AND KEEP AWAY FROM FAST MOVING CREEKS.
$$

KIELTYKA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 11:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Holmes	4 hr
Jun 16, 11:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Stark	4 hr
Jun 17, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		118 min
Jun 17, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	58 min
Jun 17, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Wood	61 min
Jun 17, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		114 min
Jun 17, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		114 min
Jun 17, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	64 min
Jun 17, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	62 min
Jun 17, 7:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	57 min
Jun 17, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	66 min
Jun 17, 7:42 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.