Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 1, 2007, 6:50 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2007, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2007, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 8:50 PM EDT | FLOOD | 4 N Wooster, OH | 2.07 INCHES STORM TOTAL RAINFALL. ROADS CLOSED. |
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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 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 012254 FFWCLE OHC169-020245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 650 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO * UNTIL 1045 PM EDT * AT 649 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH WAYNE COUNTY THIS EVENING. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. FLOODING OF ROADS AND STREAMS MAY OCCUR. DO NO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS AS THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. LAT...LON 4067 8209 4097 8209 4097 8164 4067 8165 $$ KIELTYKA
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KCLE 020142 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 940 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 2007 OHC169-020245- WAYNE OH- 940 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM EDT FOR WAYNE COUNTY... AT 936 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODING OF SOME COUNTY ROADS ACROSS MUCH OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF WAYNE COUNTY. AREAS WHERE THE HEAVIEST RAIN OCCURRED WAS FROM CONGRESS AND WEST SALEM THROUGH SMITHVILLE...ORRVILLE AND DALTON. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS MAY CAUSE UP TO AN INCH OF RAINFALL THROUGH MIDNIGHT. THIS MAY ALLOW FLOODING TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 4067 8209 4097 8209 4097 8164 4067 8165 $$ MRD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 64 min |
| May 1, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 80 min |
| May 1, 3:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Sandusky, Wood | 42 min |
| May 1, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 53 min |
| May 1, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 67 min |
| May 1, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron, Sandusky | 75 min |
| May 1, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 25 min |
| May 1, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 92 min | |
| May 1, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 36 min |
| May 1, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 50 min |
| May 1, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 60 min |
| May 1, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Lake | 58 min |
| May 1, 5:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 52 min |
| May 1, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Lorain | 56 min |
| May 1, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 52 min |
| May 1, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 71 min |
| May 1, 5:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland | 53 min |
| May 1, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina, Wayne | 64 min |
| May 1, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 60 min |
| May 1, 5:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 64 min |
| May 1, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 82 min |
| May 1, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 64 min |
| May 1, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 46 min |
| May 1, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 57 min |
| May 1, 6:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 113 min | |
| May 1, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 64 min |
| May 1, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 61 min |
| May 1, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 60 min |
| May 1, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 54 min |
| May 1, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 66 min |
| May 1, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 64 min |
| May 1, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 30 min |
| May 1, 7:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland | 4 hr |
| May 1, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 53 min |
| May 1, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 65 min |
| May 1, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 60 min |
| May 1, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Wyandot | 48 min |
| May 1, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 64 min |
| May 1, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 56 min |
| May 1, 7:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 6 hr |
| May 1, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 30 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.