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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 25, 2005Ashland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2005, 5:43 PM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 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
Jun 25, 2005, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2005, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ashland County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2005-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2005-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 252143
FFWCLE
OHC005-260045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
543 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ASHLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 535 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED FROM A THUNDERSTORM
  NEAR HAYESVILLE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ASHLAND...SLOWLY   
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO            
  HAYESVILLE...JEROMESVILLE...MOHICANVILLE AND MCZENA.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

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 4080 8239 4061 8233 4067 8211 4098 8214

$$

MRD
2 follow-up statements
000 
WGUS71 KCLE 252214
FFSCLE

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
614 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 2005

OHC005-260045-
ASHLAND OH-
610 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR ASHLAND 
COUNTY...

AT 605 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THAT 3 TO LOCALLY 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL BETWEEN 430 AND 6 PM IN AND 
AROUND THE HAYEVILLE AND JEROMESVILE AREA. ALTHOUGH THE RAINFALL HAS 
DIMINISHED...RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO 
ALLOW FOR FLASH FLOODING. NEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO THE AREA 
FROM RICHLAND COUNTY WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE OVER 
THE SAME AREAS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE 
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

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 4080 8239 4061 8233 4067 8211 4098 8214

$$

MRD
000 
WGUS71 KCLE 252359
FFSCLE

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
756 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 2005

OHC005-260006-
ASHLAND OH-
756 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ASHLAND COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT THE HEAVIEST 
RAINFALL HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY...AND THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT 
HAS ENDED. HOWEVER...IF VENTURING OUT THIS EVENING...CONTINUE TO USE 
CAUTION AS THERE MAY BE SOME STANDING WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.

LAT...LON 4080 8239 4061 8233 4067 8211 4098 8214

$$

MRD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 3:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark, Wayne3 hr
Jun 25, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland68 min
Jun 25, 7:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow46 min

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.