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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 10, 2005Ashtabula County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2005, 4:42 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report 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: Jun 10, 2005, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2005, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ashtabula County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jun 10, 5:20 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	Andover, OH	PART OF PYMATUNING LAKE ROAD WASHED OUT.

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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 140 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 752 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 803 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 102043
FFWCLE
OHC007-102345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
442 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ASHTABULA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 440 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS 
THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF ORWELL MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER...
  ORWELL AND ANDOVER

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. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 4150 8066 4150 8067 4150 8100 4160 8100
      4161 8098 4161 8096 4177 8052 4150 8053

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 102213
FFSCLE

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
610 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005

OHC007-102345-
ASHTABULA OH-
610 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR ASHTABULA 
COUNTY...

AT 607 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING 
MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HEADING INTO SOUTHERN ASHTABULA 
COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT SOME AREAS MAY HAVE RECEIVED 
OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN SO FAR AND ANOTHER INCH OR TWO OF RAIN MAY 
OCCUR THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 
MPH.

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 4150 8066 4150 8067 4150 8100 4160 8100
      4161 8098 4161 8096 4177 8052 4150 8053

$$

KIELTYKA

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 102348
FFSCLE

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
744 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005

OHC007-102354-
ASHTABULA OH-
744 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHERN ASHTABULA COUNTY EXPIRES AT
745 PM EDT...

THE HEAVIER RAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON HAVE LONG SINCE ENDED AND 
RUNOFF FROM THAT RAINFALL HAS MOSTLY RECEDED.  PART OF PYMATUNING 
ROAD WAS WASHED OUT FROM THE RAINFALL.  OTHER ROADS MAY HAVE 
SIMILAR PROBLEMS...SO USE CAUTION IF YOU ARE OUT DRIVING THIS 
EVENING.

THE REMAINING AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN AROUND THE COUNTY WILL COME TO AN 
END THIS EVENING...BUT NO ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS ARE EXPECTED.


LAT...LON 4150 8066 4150 8067 4150 8100 4160 8100
      4161 8098 4161 8096 4177 8052 4150 8053

$$
ADAMS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 11:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jun 10, 12:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	63 min
Jun 10, 2:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lake	57 min
Jun 10, 3:24 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		66 min
Jun 10, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	38 min
Jun 10, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	53 min
Jun 10, 3:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Marion	3 hr
Jun 10, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	56 min
Jun 10, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		54 min
Jun 10, 4:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Holmes	3 hr
Jun 10, 5:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Knox	3 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.