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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Mar 2, 2007, 11:18 AM EST for Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2007, 11:18 AM EST (16:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2007, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Erie County, OH, Lorain County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:19 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 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 021621 FFWCLE OHC043-093-022015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1118 AM EST FRI MAR 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR AN ICE JAM IN... ERIE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF VERMILION... WEST CENTRAL LORAIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... * UNTIL 315 PM EST * AT 1118 AM EST...AN ICE JAM ON THE VERMILION RIVER AT VERMILION HAS FORMED AND IS CAUSING FLASH FLOODING NEAR AND UPSTREAM FROM THE JAM LOCATION. EVACUATIONS IN THE VERMILION LAGOON AREA HAVE BEEN ORDERED. FLASH FLOODING DUE TO ICE JAM FORMATION IS ALSO TAKING PLACE ON THE HURON RIVER... WITH EVACUATIONS REQUIRED IN THE HURON LAGOONS AND FRANKLIN FLATS AREA. * AFFECTED LOCATIONS INCLUDE LOW LYING AREAS NEAR THE HURON AND VERMILION RIVERS. IF YOU RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS TO EVACUATE FROM LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS... DO SO IMMEDIATELY. FLOODING ASSOCIATED WITH ICE JAMS IS DIFFICULT TO PREDICT...AND CONDITIONS CAN CHANGE RAPIDLY. FLOODING ASSOCIATED WITH ICE JAMS IS OFTEN WORST IMMEDIATELY UPSTREAM OF THE JAM LOCATION. IF YOU LIVE ALONG OR NEAR RIVERS PRONE TO ICE JAMS...BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...A WARNING IS ISSUED...OR IF REQUESTED BY EMERGENCY PERSONNEL. LAT...LON 4148 8274 4129 8276 4129 8224 4150 8224 $$ ASTIFAN
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KCLE 021748 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1245 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2007 OHC043-093-022015- LORAIN OH-ERIE OH- 1245 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ICE JAMS ON THE HURON AND VERMILION RIVERS REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM EST FOR ERIE AND WEST CENTRAL LORAIN COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... AT 1245 PM EST...SEVERE ICE JAM FLOODING CONTINUES ALONG THE VERMILION AND HURON RIVERS. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS HAVE ORDERED VOLUNTARY EVACUATIONS OF THE VERMILION LAGOON AT THE MOUTH OF THE VERMILION RIVER... AND IN FRANKLIN FLATS AND THE HURON LAGOON AT THE MOUTH OF THE HURON RIVER. RAPID RISES AND FALLS IN WATER LEVEL CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR BOTH ICE JAM LOCATIONS THIS AFTERNOON. IF YOU LIVE NEAR THESE RIVERS... BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND QUICKLY. THE RIVER GAGE AT THE HURON RIVER AT MILAN CRESTED AT 20.3 FEET THIS MORNING... AND IS NOW STARTING A SLOW FALL. THE RIVER STAGE AS OF 12 PM WAS 20.1 FEET. SEVERE FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL THE ICE JAM ON THE HURON RIVER BREAKS... OR UNTIL WATER LEVELS AT THE MILAN GAGE FALL SIGNIFICANTLY. THE RIVER GAGE ON THE VERMILION RIVER AT MILL HOLLOW PARK HAS BEEN FLUCTUATING NEAR 9 FEET THIS MORNING. FLOW ON THE VERMILION RIVER IS EXPECTED TO RISE SLIGHTLY THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE BEGINNING A SLOW FALL EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. SEVERE FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE IN VERMILION UNTIL THE ICE JAM BREAKS... OR UNTIL WATER LEVELS AT MILL HOLLOW PARK FALL SIGNIFICANTLY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS THAT ARE CLOSED... OR WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. FLOODING ASSOCIATED WITH ICE JAMS IS DIFFICULT TO PREDICT...AND CONDITIONS CAN CHANGE RAPIDLY. FLOODING ASSOCIATED WITH ICE JAMS IS OFTEN MOST SEVERE IMMEDIATELY UPSTREAM OF THE JAM LOCATION. OBEY ALL EVACUATION ORDERS FROM LOCAL EMERGENCY PERSONNEL. LAT...LON 4148 8274 4129 8276 4129 8224 4150 8224 $$ ASTIFAN
000 WGUS71 KCLE 022023 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 322 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2007 OHC043-093-022032- LORAIN OH-ERIE OH- 322 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ICE JAMS HAS EXPIRED FOR ERIE AND WEST CENTRAL LORAIN COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO... ICE JAMS REMAIN IN PLACE ON BOTH THE HURON AND VERMILION RIVERS. AS OF 319 PM EST BOTH JAMS WERE STABLE... WITH WATER LEVELS STEADY OR FALLING SLIGHTLY. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. ADDITIONAL SHARP RISES ARE POSSIBLE IF THE ICE JAMS SHIFT OR REFORM THIS EVENING. SIGINIFICANT FLOODING CONTINUES ALONG THE HURON AND VERMILION RIVERS AWAY FROM THE ICE JAM LOCATIONS... AND FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR THOSE RIVERS. LAT...LON 4148 8274 4129 8276 4129 8224 4150 8224 $$ ASTIFAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 3:52 AM EST | Wind Advisory | CLE | Ashland, Crawford, Erie, Hancock, Huron, Knox and 10 more | 15 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.