Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 20, 2005, 4:34 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 116 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 2005, 4:34 PM EDT (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2005, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Lorain County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 5:00 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Elyria, OH | A FOOT AND A HALF OF WATER ON ROADS. A FEW CARS FLOATING NEAR MIDWAY MALL. |
| Aug 20, 6:00 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | North Olmsted, OH | WATER UP TO WINDOWS ON A FEW HOUSES. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 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 202035 FFWCLE OHC035-093-202230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 434 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 429 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODING IN ELYRIA. FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS WILL OCCUR WITH HEAVY THUNDERSTORM RAINS. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE... WESTLAKE... VERMILION... PARMA... NORTH RIDGEVILLE... LORAIN... LAKEWOOD... GRAFTON... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES. A RAPID RISE IN WATER CAN BE EXPECTED. 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 4167 8147 4143 8154 4116 8231 4145 8234 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KCLE 202111 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 507 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2005 OHC035-093-202230- LORAIN OH-CUYAHOGA OH- 507 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR CUYAHOGA AND LORAIN COUNTIES... AT 504 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING NEAR THE MIDWAY MALL IN ELYRIA. FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED ON CENTER RIDGE ROAD IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL CONTINUE FROM NEAR ELYRIA TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF CLEVELAND AS WELL AS THE EASTERN SUBURBS OF CLEVELAND BETWEEN 5 AND 6 PM. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4167 8147 4143 8154 4116 8231 4145 8234 $$
000 WGUS71 KCLE 202204 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 559 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2005 OHC035-093-202230- LORAIN OH-CUYAHOGA OH- 559 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR CUYAHOGA AND LORAIN COUNTIES... AT 551 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS IN VERMILION IN NORTHWEST LORAIN COUNTY REPORTED TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WITH THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY MOVE EAST ACROSS NORTHERN LORAIN COUNTY. THIS IS THE SAME AREA WHERE THE HEAVY RAIN OCCURRED EARLIER DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON. THIS WILL CONTINUE THE FLOOD THREAT OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL LORAIN COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED OVER CUYAHOGA COUNTY. HIGH WATER IS STILL LIKELY IN LOW LYING AREAS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE AS THE STORMS OVER LORAIN COUNTY MOVE EAST BETWEEN 6 AND 7 PM. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. LAT...LON 4167 8147 4143 8154 4116 8231 4145 8234 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit, Wayne | 47 min |
| Aug 20, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 43 min |
| Aug 20, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Huron | 61 min |
| Aug 20, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 56 min |
| Aug 20, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 64 min |
| Aug 20, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 91 min | |
| Aug 20, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 67 min |
| Aug 20, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 47 min |
| Aug 20, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox, Richland | 59 min |
| Aug 20, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 70 min |
| Aug 20, 4:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Medina | 28 min |
| Aug 20, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 51 min |
| Aug 20, 4:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 87 min | |
| Aug 20, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake | 46 min |
| Aug 20, 5:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 2 hr |
| Aug 20, 6:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 2 hr |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.