Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Cleveland, OH
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.
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
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.
- 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
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
$$
ASTIFAN1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS71 KCLE 082203
FFSCLE
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
601 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2005
OHC093-082211-
LORAIN OH-
601 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2005
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LORAIN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE RAIN HAS
ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED. RADAR INDICATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN
AN AREA FROM AMHERST TO AVON.
THERE MAY STILL BE STANDING WATER AND MINOR FLOODING ON AREA
ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY IN LORAIN...AMHERST AND AVON. USE CAUTION IF
DRIVING...AND DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CARS INTO HIGH WATER.
LAT...LON 4143 8234 4133 8234 4135 8197 4151 8197
4151 8202
$$
MRDNearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 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.