Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 20, 2005, 6:29 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr. 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, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2005, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- 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), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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, 6:58 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | North Ridgeville, OH | DRAINAGE DITCHES FLOODING WITH BASEMENT AND STREET FLOODING. |
| Aug 20, 7:00 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Fairview Park, OH | BASEMENT FLOODING WITH 4 TO 6 INCHES OF WATER. RIVER NEAR ROCKY RIVER STABLES IN FLOOD. |
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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 179 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 202232 FFWCLE OHC035-093-210030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 629 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 626 PM EDT...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED ACROSS CENTRAL LORAIN COUNTY AND WESTERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ALONG THE INTERSTATE 90 CORRIDOR IN LORAIN COUNTY AND THE INTERSTATE 480 CORRIDOR IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL CUYAHOGA COUNTY. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE BEFORE THE RAIN ENDS BY 8 PM. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE... NORTH OLMSTED... ROCKY RIVER... BEREA... PARMA... NORTH ROYALTON... NORTH RIDGEVILLE... ELYRIA... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. 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 4153 8144 4136 8137 4118 8231 4142 8235 $$
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, 5:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 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.