Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2005, 5:09 PM EDT for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. 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 28, 2005, 5:09 PM EDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2005, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crawford County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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 282111 FFWCLE PAC039-290015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 509 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 815 PM EDT * AT 505 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING NEAR PYMATUNING STATE PARK IN SOUTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN 4 AND 5 PM...WITH ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. * LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE... PYMATUNING STATE PARK... SOUTH SHENANGO TOWNSHIP... 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. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND HAVE THEM RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4155 8032 4148 8029 4146 8051 4159 8048 $$ ASTIFAN
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KCLE 290018 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 814 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005 PAC039-290024- CRAWFORD PA- 814 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CRAWFORD COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 815 PM EDT... AT 755 PM COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED NO KNOWN ONGOING FLOODING PROBLEMS. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS...THOUGH...MAY REMAIN ELEVATED FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. LAT...LON 4155 8032 4148 8029 4146 8051 4159 8048 $$ OUDEMAN
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.