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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 28, 2005Cuyahoga County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2005, 5:42 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Summit 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 28, 2005, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2005, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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 159 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 282144
FFWCLE
OHC035-153-290045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
542 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SUMMIT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO
  CUYAHOGA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 536 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNED
AREA. RADAR INDICATES 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 430PM 
IN SOUTHERN CUYAHOGA AND NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNITES.  ANOTHER INCH OF 
RAIN IS POSSIBLE BEFORE 630 PM.

* LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
  TWINSBURG...
  SOLON...
  PARMA...
  MACEDONIA...
  HUDSON...
  NORTH ROYALTON...
  BROADVIEW HEIGHTS...

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 4142 8138 4126 8143 4113 8166 4127 8169
      4138 8185

$$

ASTIFAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	48 min
Jun 28, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	24 min
Jun 28, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	44 min
Jun 28, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland	42 min
Jun 28, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Richland	38 min
Jun 28, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina, Wayne	55 min
Jun 28, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	39 min
Jun 28, 6:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.