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Areal Flood Warning 18, NWS Cleveland, OH

March 6, 2011Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this areal flood warning at Mar 6, 2011, 11:28 AM EST for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 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 6, 2011, 11:28 AM EST (16:28 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 2011, 4:43 AM EST
In force: 41 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:29 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Mar 5, 6:05 PM EST, 17 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 6:05 PM EST, 17 hours 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 5, 3:26 PM EST, 20 hours 2 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
Mar 5, 8:26 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Portage, Summit, Trumbull	33 hr
Mar 5, 8:51 PM EST	River Flood Warning	CLE	Hancock	12 hr
Mar 5, 8:51 PM EST	River Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland	25 hr
Mar 5, 8:51 PM EST	River Flood Warning	CLE	Trumbull	38 hr
Mar 5, 10:44 PM EST	River Flood Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky, Wood	41 hr
Mar 6, 8:59 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Crawford	6 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2011 Every areal flood warning 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.