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Areal Flood Advisory 13, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 25, 2011Erie County, Huron County, Lorain County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this areal flood advisory at Apr 25, 2011, 9:36 PM EDT for Erie County, Huron County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 25, 2011, 9:36 PM EDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2011, 7:30 AM EDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Erie County, OH, Huron County, OH, Lorain County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 240 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 157 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 968 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 advisory went out at Apr 25, 8:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 8:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 8:57 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	49 hr
Apr 25, 9:26 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Lake	48 hr
Apr 25, 10:26 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky, Wood	61 hr
Apr 25, 10:26 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Erie, Lorain	8 hr
Apr 25, 10:26 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Hancock	18 hr
Apr 26, 3:51 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Seneca	32 hr
Apr 26, 4:53 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	CLE	Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Hancock, Huron, Lake and 6 more	4 hr
Apr 26, 5:29 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Trumbull	40 hr
Apr 26, 9:24 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Trumbull	37 hr
Apr 26, 3:19 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	CLE	Ashland, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Hancock, Holmes and 14 more	7 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in Ohio, 2011 Every areal flood advisory in 2011

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.