Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 2005, 1:02 AM 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 25, 2005, 1:02 AM EDT (05:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2005, 4:00 AM 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 Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:03 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 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1360 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 418 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 250504 FFWCLE PAC039-049-250800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 102 AM EDT MON JUL 25 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 400 AM EDT * AT 1 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW HEAVY RAIN OVER MUCH OF ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTY. THE RAIN MAY CONTINUE UNTIL 3 AM IN PARTS OF THE COUNTY AND FLOODING WILL LIKELY DEVELOP. THE PUBLIC REPORTED OVER AN INCH OF RAIN IN CONNEAUTVILLE BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 1 AM. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE... WATERFORD... UNION CITY... MEADVILLE... LINESVILLE... GIRARD... ERIE... EDINBORO... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 4220 7990 4163 7969 4150 8045 4197 8050 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KCLE 250718 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 315 AM EDT MON JUL 25 2005 PAC039-049-250800- ERIE PA-CRAWFORD PA- 315 AM EDT MON JUL 25 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES CONTINUES UNTIL 4 AM... AT 3 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL SINCE MIDNIGHT IN AN AREA FROM FAIRFIEW AND GERARD THROUGH EDINBORO TO CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS. RADAR ALSO SHOWED 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN JUST WEST OF ALBION. ALTHOUGH THE RAIN HAS DIMINISHED OVER ERIE COUNTY...HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER CRAWFORD COUNTY THROUGH 4 AM...WHERE ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN MAY FALL. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. $$ MRD
000 WGUS71 KCLE 250804 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 400 AM EDT MON JUL 25 2005 PAC039-049-250900- ERIE PA-CRAWFORD PA- 400 AM EDT MON JUL 25 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED... AT 355 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY ACROSS CRAWFORD COUNTY. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING ACROSS THE REGION. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO LOCALLY 5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL FROM FAIRFIEW TO EDINBORO TO CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS. PERSONS TRAVELLING THIS MORNING ACROSS EXTREME NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA SHOULD USE CAUTION AS THERE MAY BE AREAS OF HIGH WATER ON ROADWAYS...AND SOME SMALL CREEKS OR DITCHES OUT OF THEIR BANKS. $$ MRD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 11:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 12:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 67 min |
| Jul 25, 12:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 70 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 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.