Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2007, 6:57 PM EDT for Lucas 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
- Jun 3, 2007, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2007, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Flood severity
- None
County Lucas County, OH
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:00 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Toledo, OH | UNDERPASSED FLOODED AND SOME CARS STRANDED. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1227 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 032258 FFWCLE OHC095-040200- /X.NEW.KCLE.FF.W.0003.070603T2257Z-070604T0200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 657 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LUCAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT * AT 650 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TOLEDO... SYLVANIA AND HOLLAND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AN INCH TO TWO INCHES MAY OCCUR IN THE WARNED AREA. THIS AREA HAD HEAVY RAIN THIS AFTERNOON. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CAUSE RAPID FLOODING. 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 WILL BE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. LAT...LON 4147 8383 4157 8362 4172 8355 4171 8393 $$ KIELTYKA
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KCLE 040124 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 920 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2007 OHC095-040200- /X.CON.KCLE.FF.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070604T0200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ LUCAS OH- 920 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR LUCAS COUNTY... AT 911 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SOME SHOWERS MOVING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS THIS EVENING RANGED FROM THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH TO AN INCH AND A QUARTER. THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS OVER AND THE WATER LEVELS WILL BEGIN TO RECEDE. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TOLEDO AND HOLLAND IF YOU ENCOUNTER FLOODED ROADS THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK...TURN AROUND AND DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 4147 8383 4157 8362 4171 8348 4171 8393 $$ KIELTYKA
000 WGUS71 KCLE 040200 FFSCLE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 958 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2007 OHC095-040228- /X.EXP.KCLE.FF.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070604T0200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ LUCAS OH- 958 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR LUCAS COUNTY... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. THE GROUND IS VERY SATURATED AND SOME ROADS AND STREAMS MAY STILL BE FLOODED. THE WATER WILL SLOWLY RECEDE. IF YOU ENCOUNTER FLOODED ROADS THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK...TURN AROUND AND DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 4147 8383 4157 8362 4171 8348 4171 8393 $$ KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 1:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lucas | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 42 min |
| Jun 3, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 55 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.