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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 22, 2006Lake County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2006, 11:11 AM EDT for Lake County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 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
Jul 22, 2006, 11:11 AM EDT (15:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2006, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lake County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:12 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 22, 1:50 PM EDTFLASH FLOODMentor, OHSEVERAL STREETS CLOSED COUNTY-WIDE DUE TO FLOWING HIGH WATER.

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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 2006-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 207 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2006-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
207 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 221511
FFWCLE
OHC085-221915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1111 AM EDT SAT JUL 22 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PAINESVILLE

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 1106 AM EDT...DOPPLAR RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER THE 
WARNED AREA. DOPPLAR RADAR ESTIMATES THAT UP TO AN INCH AND A HALF 
OF RAINFALL HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVERNIGHT AND EARLIER THIS MORNING 
ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF LAKE COUNTY. 

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PERRY...
  MENTOR AND MADISON

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE 
WARNED AREA.

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 4157 8146 4156 8129 4164 8129 4164 8111
      4171 8109 4172 8101 4185 8101 4165 8148

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS71 KCLE 221916
FFSCLE

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
315 PM EDT SAT JUL 22 2006

OHC085-221918-
LAKE OH-
315 PM EDT SAT JUL 22 2006

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 315 PM EDT 
FOR LAKE COUNTY...

HOWEVER...DOPPLAR RADAR IS CONTINUING TO INDICATE A BAND OF RAINFALL 
ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF LAKE COUNTY THAT MAY ALLOW FOR ADDITIONAL 
RAINFALL AMOUNTS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON.

LAT...LON 4157 8146 4156 8129 4164 8129 4164 8111
      4171 8109 4172 8101 4185 8101 4165 8148

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 2:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchCLEAshland, Holmes, Knox, Mahoning, Morrow, Portage and 5 more9 hr
Jul 22, 3:48 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEKnox6 hr
Jul 22, 10:09 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula3 hr
Jul 22, 12:52 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006

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.