Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2005, 11:17 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 118 min. 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 30, 2005, 11:17 PM EDT (03:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2005, 1:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Portage County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KCLE 310319 FFWCLE OHC133-310515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1117 PM EDT TUE AUG 30 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PORTAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO * UNTIL 115 AM EDT * AT 1111 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT SEVERAL MAJOR ROADS WERE CLOSED IN SPOTS...ROUTE 14 EAST OF ROUTE 44 AND STATE ROUTE 88 NORTH OF ROUTE 14. SOME PEOPLE WERE BEING EVACUATED FROM A TRAILER PARK IN RAVENNA TOWNSHIP. THE RAIN WAS TAPERING OFF BUT WITH THE GROUND SATURATED ADDITIONAL RUNOFF WILL CAUSE PROBLEMS. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE... RAVENNA... MANTUA... GARRETTSVILLE... 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. 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 4099 8100 4099 8131 4134 8132 4134 8101 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KCLE 310428 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1222 AM EDT WED AUG 31 2005 OHC133-310515- PORTAGE OH- 1222 AM EDT WED AUG 31 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 115 AM EDT FOR PORTAGE COUNTY... LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO STREETSBORO...KENT...NORTH RANDOPLH...MANTUA AND GARRETTSVILLE. FLOODING WAS STILL BEING REPORTED AT A NUMBER OF LOCATIONS IN PORTAGE COUNTY. A STREAM WAS OUT OF ITS BANKS IN NORTH RANDOLPH. ROUTE 14 WAS REPORTED CLOSED EAST OF ROUTE 44. STATE ROUTE 88 NORTH OF ROUTE 14 WAS ALSO REPORTED CLOSED. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE RAIN DECREASING ACROSS PORTAGE COUNTY BUT SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER HOUR OR SO. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. NEVER DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADWAYS. LAT...LON 4099 8100 4098 8137 4134 8138 4134 8101 $$ KOSARIK
000 WGUS71 KCLE 310515 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 115 AM EDT WED AUG 31 2005 OHC133-310515- PORTAGE OH- 115 AM EDT WED AUG 31 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR PORTAGE COUNTY... THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE ENDED...LESS THAN AN INCH OF ADDITIONAL RAIN IS EXPECTED DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. A FEW CREEKS IN RAVENNA TOWNSHIP WERE STILL A LITTLE HIGH BUT SHOULD FALL SINCE THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE ENDED. ANY ROADS THAT ARE STILL FLOODED SHOULD SLOWLY RECEDE. LAT...LON 4099 8100 4098 8137 4134 8138 4134 8101 $$ KIELTYKA
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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.