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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2005, 7:07 PM EDT for Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. 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, 7:07 PM EDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2005, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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, 11.1 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
- 944 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 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 162307 FFWCLE PAC039-049-170200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 707 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ERIE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT * AT 704 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA. RADAR INDICATES 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 5 PM ACROSS MANY PLACES IN ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES...WITH ANOTHER 1 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. 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 4250 7952 4134 7953 4143 8048 4214 8047 $$ MRD
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KCLE 170046 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 843 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2005 PAC039-049-170200- CRAWFORD PA-ERIE PA- 843 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES... AT 842 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF THE WARNED AREA EAST OF INTERSTATE 79. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA EAST OF INTERSTATE 79 SINCE 6 PM. AREAS NEAR WATERFORD...UNION CITY...AND FAR EASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY HAVE SEEN THE HEAVIEST RAIN WITH RADAR ESTIMATES NEAR 4 INCHES SINCE 6 PM. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 10 PM...MAKING THIS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 4250 7952 4134 7953 4143 8048 4214 8047 $$ MRD
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.