Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2005, 8:38 PM EDT for Hancock 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, 8:38 PM EDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2005, 11:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hancock County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1083 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KCLE 170039 FFWCLE OHC063-170345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 838 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO * UNTIL 1145 PM EDT * AT 837 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA. RADAR INDICATES THAT 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE FINDLAY AREA SINCE 7 PM...WITH ANOTHER INCH OF RAIN POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. 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 4115 8347 4084 8351 4084 8378 4115 8386 $$ MRD
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KCLE 170216 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1015 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2005 OHC063-170345- HANCOCK OH- 1015 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1145 PM EDT FOR HANCOCK COUNTY... AT 1005 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IN HANCOCK COUNTY REPORTED FLOODING OF NUMEROUS ROADS THROUGHOUT HANCOCK COUNTY AND IN THE CITY OF FINDLAY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTY THROUGH 10 PM...WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN OVER THE CITY OF FINDLAY. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE COUNTY THROUGH 1130 PM...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO AN INCH EXPECTED. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS. THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK. LAT...LON 4115 8347 4084 8351 4084 8378 4115 8386 $$ MRD
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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.