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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 16, 2005Seneca County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2005, 5:19 PM EDT for Seneca 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: Jul 16, 2005, 5:19 PM EDT (21:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2005, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Seneca County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 1281 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 162121
FFWCLE
OHC147-170015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
519 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SENECA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 518 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 
RAINFALL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. RADAR INDICATES THAT 
UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN FELL BETWEEN 415 AND 515 PM. AN ADDITIONAL 1 
TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE BY 700 PM. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 
REPORTED SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHERN PART OF SENECA 
COUNTY. 

* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
  TIFFIN...
  NEW RIEGEL...
  BLOOMVILLE...

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 4104 8340 4125 8308 4125 8285 4109 8284
      4099 8301 4099 8316 4100 8317 4103 8341

$$

MRD

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 162231
FFSCLE

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
629 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2005

OHC147-170015-
SENECA OH-
629 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR SENECA
COUNTY...

AT 624 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT 1 
TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN PARTS OF 
SENECA COUNTY. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT INDICATED SOME MINOR FLOODING 
OF ROADWAYS ACROSS THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTY. ALTHOUGH THE RAIN 
HAS STOPPED...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MOVING INTO THE AREA 
MAY ALLOW FOR ADDITIONAL FLOODING THIS EVENING.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE 
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO FLOODED 
ROADWAYS. THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK.

LAT...LON 4104 8340 4125 8308 4125 8285 4109 8284
      4099 8301 4099 8316 4100 8317 4103 8341

$$

MRD

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 170016
FFSCLE

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
815 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2005

OHC147-170100-
SENECA OH-
815 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SENECA COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT THE HEAVY RAIN 
HAS LEFT THE COUNTY. SENECA COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED THAT 
SEVERAL ROADS IN THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN PARTS OF SENECA COUNTY HAD 
WATER ON THEM...SO USE CAUTION IF DRIVING THIS EVENING AND DO NOT 
DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU 
THINK.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS 
EVENING...HOWEVER RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE LESS THAN AN 
INCH.

LAT...LON 4104 8340 4125 8308 4125 8285 4109 8284
      4099 8301 4099 8316 4100 8317 4103 8341

$$

MRD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 16, 4:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Lorain	3 hr
Jul 16, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga, Lake	53 min
Jul 16, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	62 min
Jul 16, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jul 16, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		118 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.