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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 26, 2005Cuyahoga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2005, 6:24 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 96 min. 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 26, 2005, 6:24 PM EDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 2005, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
96 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cuyahoga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 2005-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 845 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2005-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
845 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 262225
FFWCLE
OHC035-270000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
624 PM EDT TUE JUL 26 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CLEVELAND

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 620 PM EDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED FLOODING FROM A 
HUNDERSTORM NEAR CLEVELAND AND MAYFIELD.

* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING WILL BE NEAR...
  NORTH ROYALTON BY 630 PM EDT
  PARMA BY 635 PM EDT
  SOLON BY 710 PM EDT

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. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 4143 8137 4135 8138 4135 8158 4133 8159
      4131 8157 4130 8159 4129 8187 4135 8187
      4135 8194 4146 8195 4154 8138

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 2:53 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jul 26, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELucas56 min
Jul 26, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELake35 min
Jul 26, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne23 min
Jul 26, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes35 min
Jul 26, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula58 min
Jul 26, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga58 min
Jul 26, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark56 min
Jul 26, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain28 min
Jul 26, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEOttawa31 min
Jul 26, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit32 min
Jul 26, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie28 min
Jul 26, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga47 min
Jul 26, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage33 min
Jul 26, 4:58 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jul 26, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain59 min
Jul 26, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Lake49 min
Jul 26, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie51 min
Jul 26, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga68 min
Jul 26, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca, Wyandot45 min
Jul 26, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga62 min
Jul 26, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock34 min
Jul 26, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron26 min
Jul 26, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain39 min
Jul 26, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula, Trumbull65 min
Jul 26, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Seneca, Wyandot63 min
Jul 26, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHuron57 min
Jul 26, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit38 min
Jul 26, 6:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain55 min
Jul 26, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox47 min
Jul 26, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga47 min
Jul 26, 7:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning46 min
Jul 26, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Holmes, Wayne44 min
Jul 26, 7:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina44 min
Jul 26, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit52 min
Jul 26, 7:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox32 min

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.