Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 20, 2005, 5:53 PM EDT for Erie County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 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 20, 2005, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2005, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Erie County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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, 9.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 202155 FFWCLE OHC043-210000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 553 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 550 PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHEAST HALF OF THE COUNTY. AT 551 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN VERMILION WITH SIGNIFICANT STREET FLOODING. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE... HURON... BERLIN HEIGHTS... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. THE WORST FLOODING IS LIKELY EAST OF MILAN AND FROM AROUND INTERSTATE 90 NORTH TO THE LAKE. 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 4145 8236 4129 8236 4130 8276 4139 8274 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KCLE 202358 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 755 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2005 OHC043-210005- ERIE OH- 755 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ERIE COUNTY OHIO WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 800 PM EDT... THE HEAVY RAINFALL THAT PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS COME TO AN END AND FLOOD WATERS HAVE RECEDED. THERE MAY STILL BE STANDING WATER AND MINOR FLOODING ON RURAL ROADWAYS. USE CAUTION IF DRIVING...AND DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CARS INTO HIGH WATER. LAT...LON 4145 8236 4129 8236 4130 8276 4139 8274 $$ LEINS
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, 4:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 116 min |
| Aug 20, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake | 46 min |
| 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.