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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 28, 2005Ashtabula County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2005, 6:29 PM EDT for Ashtabula 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
Jun 28, 2005, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2005, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ashtabula County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2005-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 249 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2005-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 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 282230
FFWCLE
OHC007-290130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
629 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 627 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNED
AREA. RADAR INDICATES AROUND 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 5 PM 
EDT. ANOTHER INCH RAIN POSSIBLE BY 8 PM. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS BEEN
OVER THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY.


* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
  ORWELL...
  JEFFERSON...
  ANDOVER...

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. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN

LAT...LON 4180 8060 4150 8056 4152 8098 4172 8095

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS71 KCLE 290056
FFSCLE

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
850 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005

OHC007-290100-
ASHTABULA OH-
850 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ASHTABULA COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

AT 850 PM NO REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY THE 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAIN HAS 
ENDED...ALTHOUGH THE CHANCE FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL 
CONTINUE TONIGHT.  AGAIN...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN 
CANCELLED FOR ASHTABULA COUNTY.  

LAT...LON 4180 8060 4150 8056 4152 8098 4172 8095

$$

OUDEMAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 2:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark48 min
Jun 28, 2:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford24 min
Jun 28, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning44 min
Jun 28, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland42 min
Jun 28, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland38 min
Jun 28, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Wayne55 min
Jun 28, 5:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit39 min
Jun 28, 5:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Summit3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005

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.