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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 8, 2005Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 2005, 4:04 PM EDT for Lorain 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
Aug 8, 2005, 4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2005, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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, 8.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2005-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2005-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 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 082004
FFWCLE
OHC093-082300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
404 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 400 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING IN NORTHERN 
LORAIN COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 
SINCE 230PM...WITH ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT FEW 
HOURS.

* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
  VERMILION...
  NORTH RIDGEVILLE...
  LORAIN...
  ELYRIA...
  AVON LAKE...
  AMHERST...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES. DEBRIS MAY
BLOCK STORM DRAINS AND CULVERTS... CAUSING A RAPID RISE IN WATER
LEVELS NEAR THE BLOCKAGE.

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 4143 8234 4133 8234 4135 8197 4151 8197
      4151 8202

$$

ASTIFAN
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS71 KCLE 082203
FFSCLE

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
601 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2005

OHC093-082211-
LORAIN OH-
601 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LORAIN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE RAIN HAS 
ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS 
BEEN CANCELLED. RADAR INDICATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN 
AN AREA FROM AMHERST TO AVON.

THERE MAY STILL BE STANDING WATER AND MINOR FLOODING ON AREA 
ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY IN LORAIN...AMHERST AND AVON. USE CAUTION IF 
DRIVING...AND DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CARS INTO HIGH WATER.

LAT...LON 4143 8234 4133 8234 4135 8197 4151 8197
      4151 8202

$$

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.