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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 27, 2006Ashtabula County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2006, 4:59 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
Jul 27, 2006, 4:59 PM EDT (20:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2006, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ashtabula County, OH

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 27, 7:30 PM EDTFLASH FLOODGeneva, OHA PERSON WAS RESCUED FROM FLOOD WATERS NEAR GENEVA.

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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 2006-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1155 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2006-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1155 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
966 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 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 272101
FFWCLE
OHC007-280000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
459 PM EDT THU JUL 27 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ASHTABULA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...JEFFERSON...ASHTABULA

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 454 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF ASHTABULA COUNTY. 
RADAR INDICATED THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN 4 AND 
5 PM IN SOUTHERN ASHTABULA COUNTY NEAR ORWELL AND ANDOVER. 
ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL OF UP TO 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE BETWEEN 5 
AND 7 PM ACROSS THIS AREA...AS WELL AS NORTHERN ASHTABULA COUNTY 
NEAR ASHTABULA AND JEFFERSON.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ORWELL...
  NORTH KINGSVILLE...JEFFERSON...GENEVA...CONNEAUT AND ANDOVER

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. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN

LAT...LON 4151 8053 4152 8097 4186 8096 4192 8077
      4192 8071 4195 8066 4196 8056 4199 8054

$$

MRD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 8:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWood35 min
Jul 26, 8:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky33 min
Jul 26, 8:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE93 min
Jul 26, 10:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE84 min
Jul 27, 12:13 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jul 27, 10:50 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE115 min
Jul 27, 11:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Lake47 min
Jul 27, 12:22 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE113 min
Jul 27, 1:22 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE83 min
Jul 27, 2:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELake3 hr
Jul 27, 2:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchCLEAshland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 22 more20 hr
Jul 27, 3:40 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
Jul 27, 4:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELake7 hr
Jul 27, 6:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga3 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.