Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2004, 12:44 PM EDT for Erie 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, 12:44 PM EDT (16:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2004, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Erie County, PA
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:40 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 605 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 846 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KCLE 121645 FFWCLE PAC049-122045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1244 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 445 PM EDT * AT 1242 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED.. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... CORRY UNION CITY WATERFORD WATTSBURG HEAVY RAIN FELL IN THE CORRY AREA OVER 3 INCHES IN 75 MINUTES. 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 4225 7970 4186 7970 4187 8022 4225 8021 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KCLE 121903 FFSCLE PAC049-122045- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 300 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2004 THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 445 PM EDT. THE HEAVY RAIN THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED EAST OF THE COUNTY. MOST OF THE HEAVY RAIN WAS IN THE SOUTHEAST PORTION OF THE COUNTY NEAR CORRY. ALMOST 4 INCHES OF RAIN...3.7 INCHES OF RAIN FELL AT CORRY IN LESS THAN 2 HOURS. DOPPLER RADAR AT 3 PM WAS SHOWING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA. SOME OF THESE WERE HEADING TOWARD THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY AND COULD AGGRAVATE THE FLOODING IN THE CORRY AREA. RAINFALL WITH THIS SHOULD BE LESS THAN HALF AN INCH. WHEN THE FLOODING WAS OCCURRING IN CORRY SOME ROADS WERE WASHED OUT...SOME CARS WERE STRANDED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD...A FEW ROADS HAD 3 TO 4 FEET OF WATER ON THEM AND MANY BASEMENTS WERE FLOODED. PEOPLE IN ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA ESPECIALLY NEAR CORRY SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE FLOODING IF HEAVY RAIN MOVES IN. $$ KIELTYKA $$ KIELTYKA
000 WGUS71 KCLE 122054 FFSCLE PAC049-122145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 451 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2004 THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. AT 451 PM EDT...A SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF WATERFORD...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF ERIE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY EAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. THE FLOODED STREAMS HAVE RECEDED BACK TO WITHIN THEIR BANKS. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL THAT SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS COULD REACH BANK FULL THIS EVENING FROM ADDITIONAL RAINFALL. FAST MOVING WATER CAN BE EXPECTED IN STREAMS AND CREEKS. DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN PLAY NEAR DRAINAGE DITCHES, STORM SEWERS OR STREAMS. $$ LOMBARDY
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, 12:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 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.