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Areal Flood Warning 7, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this areal flood warning at Feb 6, 2008, 6:06 PM EST for 11 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 12 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
- Feb 6, 2008, 6:06 PM EST (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2008, 6:00 AM EST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Ashland County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Erie County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Medina County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Richland County, OH, Wayne County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at Feb 6, 3:45 PM EST, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 3:45 PM EST, 2 hours 21 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 527 AM EST WED FEB 6 2008 OHZ010>014-020>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-071030- LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-GEAUGA-ASHTABULA INLAND-MEDINA-SUMMIT-PORTAGE- TRUMBULL-WYANDOT-CRAWFORD-RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE-STARK-MAHONING- MARION-MORROW-HOLMES-KNOX-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- SOUTHERN ERIE-CRAWFORD PA- 527 AM EST WED FEB 6 2008 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHEAST OHIO...NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ003-006>009-017>019-071030- LUCAS-WOOD-OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-HANCOCK-SENECA-HURON- 527 AM EST WED FEB 6 2008 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST TODAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LEZ061-142>149-162>169-071030- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RIPLEY TO BUFFALO NY- MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH OH-RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH- THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH-VERMILION TO AVON POINT OH- AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK OH-WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE LAKE OH-GENEVA- ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT OH-CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM VERMILION TO AVON POINT- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY- 527 AM EST WED FEB 6 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY GALES ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ON LAKE ERIE SATURDAY NIGHT AND LAST THROUGH SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 6, 5:22 PM EST, 44 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 10:56 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford, Hancock, Lucas, Marion, Ottawa, Sandusky and 3 more | 32 hr |
| Feb 5, 11:46 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Cuyahoga, Erie, Holmes, Huron, Knox and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 6, 12:17 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Mahoning, Medina and 5 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 6, 1:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Crawford, Marion, Morrow, Richland, Wyandot | 6 hr |
| Feb 6, 7:34 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Lorain | 19 hr |
| Feb 6, 7:53 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 4 days |
| Feb 6, 7:54 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Cuyahoga, Erie, Holmes, Huron, Knox and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 6, 9:13 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Mahoning, Medina and 5 more | 22 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Trumbull | 31 min |
| Feb 6, 4:54 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 4 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2008Every areal flood warning in 2008
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.