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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 28, 2004Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2004, 12:45 AM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 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: Aug 28, 2004, 12:45 AM EDT (04:45 UTC)
Expired: Aug 28, 2004, 3:45 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stark County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 2042 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 280451
FFWCLE
OHC151-280745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1245 AM EDT SAT AUG 28 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 AM EDT

* AT 1239 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS 
JUST NORTH OF MINERVA...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF 
SALEM...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS OVER 
SOUTHERN STARK COUNTY MAY MOVE ACROSS THIS SAME AREA.

FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS LIKELY IN 
THE AREA BETWEEN ALLIANCE AND MINERVA...PARTICULARLY BETWEEN 
FREEBURG AND NEW FRANKLIN ON ROUTE 153 AND ROUTE 172.
 
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. BE CAREFUL IN THE DARK...IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE THE EXTENT 
OF FLOODING. 

LAT...LON 4084 8113 4067 8115 4061 8069 4084 8067

$$

KOSARIK

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 280824
FFSCLE
OHC151-280845-

FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
419 AM EDT SAT AUG 28 2004

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR STARK COUNTY HAS EXPIRED.

THE HEAVY RAINS OVER EASTERN STARK COUNTY HAD TAPERED OFF. SOME 
STANDING WATER AND FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS MAY CONTINUE 
DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.

BE CAREFUL AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF 
FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADS.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP TODAY AND HEAVY 
DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN.
 
LAT...LON 4091 8132 4074 8123 4073 8109 4098 8111

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 28, 5:37 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Lucas	113 min
Aug 28, 8:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Morrow	3 hr
Aug 28, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	59 min
Aug 28, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	64 min
Aug 28, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron, Lorain	61 min
Aug 28, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		116 min
Aug 28, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		116 min
Aug 28, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		116 min
Aug 28, 6:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Wayne	38 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.