Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2004, 12:13 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. 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
- Jul 12, 2004, 12:13 PM EDT (16:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2004, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crawford County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 286 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KCLE 121614 FFWCLE PAC039-122015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1213 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 1207 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED.. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS MEADVILLE TITUSVILLE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE COUNTY AND WITH THE GROUND SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAIN AN INCH TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN LATE THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON WAS CAUSING SOME FLOODING. 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. 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 4183 7979 4145 7980 4146 8031 4184 8030 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KCLE 121802 FFSCLE PAC039-121900- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 200 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2004 THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CRAWFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 415 PM EDT. MOST OF THE HEAVY RAIN THAT PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY. HOWEVER...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE COUNTY FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. SINCE THE GROUND IS SATURATED THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COULD CAUSE MORE FLOODING. HEAVY RAIN FELL OVER PARTS OF CRAWFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA LAST NIGHT AND SOME LOCATIONS RECEIVED UP TO AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN FROM LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AS OF 145 PM SOME ROADS WERE STILL FLOODED BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY RAIN. ONE ROAD IN SOUTHERN MEADVILLE FOR A TIME HAD 3 TO 4 FEET OF WATER ON IT. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS COULD CAUSE LOCAL FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY... COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. $$ KIELTYKA
000 WGUS71 KCLE 121909 FFSCLE PAC039-122015- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 305 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2004 THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CRAWFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 415 PM EDT. MOST OF THE HEAVY RAIN THAT PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY. HOWEVER...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE COUNTY FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. HIGH WATER REMAINED ON SOME ROADS. HOWEVER...SINCE THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED THE WATER WILL SLOWLY RECEDE. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT MAY MOVE ACROSS THE SATURATED GROUND MAY CAUSE MORE FLOODING. PEOPLE IN CRAWFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA NEED TO BE ALERT IF THIS OCCURS. $$ KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 5:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 12:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 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.