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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 17, 2004Ashland County, Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2004, 8:32 PM EDT for Ashland County, Wayne 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, 8:32 PM EDT (00:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2004, 12:30 AM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Ashland County, OH, Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 1673 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 180034
FFWCLE
OHC005-169-180430-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
  WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO

* UNTIL 1230 AM EDT

* AT 830 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS ASHLAND AND MOVING INTO WAYNE COUNTY. 
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...ASHLAND...WOOSTER AND 
SHREVE.

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 4096 8179 4096 8179 4067 8182 4067 8222
      4066 8223 4062 8223 4062 8230

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 180348
FFSCLE
OHC005-169-180445-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1147 PM EDT THU JUN 17 2004

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ASHLAND AND WAYNE COUNTIES HAS BEEN 
CANCELLED.

THE HEAVY RAIN ENDED SEVERAL HOURS AGO. SOME ROADS HAVE HIGH WATER 
AND SOME CREEKS ARE HIGH. THE WATER WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY RECEDE 
FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT. IN THE MEANTIME MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT 
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK.
$$

KIELTYKA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 8:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	53 min
Jun 17, 8:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	62 min
Jun 17, 8:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	53 min
Jun 17, 9:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Portage, Trumbull	40 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2004 Every 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.