Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2005, 3:29 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2005, 3:29 PM EDT (19:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2005, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 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), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 4:30 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Conneautville, PA | ROAD AT INTERSECTION OF ROBINSON AND INLET WASHED OUT. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 752 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 803 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 101935 FFWCLE PAC039-102230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 329 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 323 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED FROM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES EAST OF CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS TO LINESVILLE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEADVILLE TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JEFFERSON. THESE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAVE FALLEN WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN POSSIBLE DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CONNEAUTVILLE...CONNEAUT LAKESHORE...AND HARMONSBURG. STREAMS IMPACTED INCLUDE PINE RUN AND INLET RUN NORTH OF LAKE CONNEAUT. AT 320 PM LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED STATE HIGHWAY 18 SOUTH OF PACHUCK ROAD WAS FLOODED. 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 4166 7984 4158 8052 4179 8050 4185 7968 $$ ASTIFAN
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KCLE 102159 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 556 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005 PAC039-102230- CRAWFORD PA- 556 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR CRAWFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA... AT 551 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING SCATTERED SHOWERS. THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED FOR THE TIME BEING. HIGH WATER WAS REPORTED ON MANY ROADS IN THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY. SINCE THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED ANY HIGH WATER ON ROADS AND STREAMS WILL SLOWLY SUBSIDE. LAT...LON 4166 7984 4158 8052 4179 8050 4185 7968 $$ KIELTYKA
000 WGUS71 KCLE 102234 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 630 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005 PAC039-102240- CRAWFORD PA- 630 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CRAWFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA HAS EXPIRED... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD BE UP TO AN INCH OF RAIN. THE WATER WAS RECEDING FROM THE RECENT HEAVY RAIN EARLIER IN THE AFTERNOON. THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL THIS EVENING MAY CAUSE SOME PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. LAT...LON 4166 7984 4158 8052 4179 8050 4185 7968 $$ KIELTYKA
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.