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Areal Flood Warning 52, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 26, 2011Ashtabula County, Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this areal flood warning at May 26, 2011, 3:38 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio. It was in force for 6 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
May 26, 2011, 3:38 PM EDT (19:38 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2011, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2011-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2011-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -46 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1352 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-20 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 May 26, 1:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 4:38 AM EDT, 11 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
438 AM EDT THU MAY 26 2011

LEZ061-142>149-162>169-OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-
089-PAZ001>003-270845-
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-LUCAS-WOOD-
OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-GEAUGA-ASHTABULA INLAND-
HANCOCK-SENECA-HURON-MEDINA-SUMMIT-PORTAGE-TRUMBULL-WYANDOT-CRAWFORD-
RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE-STARK-MAHONING-MARION-MORROW-HOLMES-KNOX-
ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-SOUTHERN ERIE-CRAWFORD PA-
438 AM EDT THU MAY 26 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE...NORTH CENTRAL
OHIO...NORTHEAST OHIO...NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AS LOW
PRESSURE MOVES NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA. THE MAIN THREATS COULD
BE HAIL AND STRONG THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

LOMBARDY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 8:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Portage, Trumbull42 min
May 25, 8:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Summit, Wayne60 min
May 25, 8:17 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningCLEAshtabula, Mahoning, Stark, Trumbull10 hr
May 25, 8:41 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCLEHolmes, Knox5 hr
May 25, 8:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE79 min
May 25, 8:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull49 min
May 25, 10:09 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningCLEHancock57 hr
May 25, 10:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox, Morrow44 min
May 25, 10:49 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningCLECuyahoga36 hr
May 25, 10:49 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningCLEGeauga, Portage, Summit25 hr
May 25, 10:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Stark, Summit, Wayne48 min
May 25, 11:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Holmes, Knox, Richland46 min
May 25, 11:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Portage, Stark, Summit, Trumbull46 min
May 26, 12:15 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Huron, Lorain, Medina6 hr
May 26, 12:18 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningCLELucas, Wood6 days
May 26, 12:18 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningCLEOttawa, Sandusky, Wood3 days
May 26, 12:22 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull23 min
May 26, 12:29 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningCLEGeauga, Lake, Portage, Summit, Wayne6 hr
May 26, 12:37 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningCLELucas, Wood5 days
May 26, 1:15 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningCLEAshland, Crawford, Marion, Morrow, Richland, Wyandot5 hr
May 26, 1:29 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock, Marion, Wood, Wyandot61 min
May 26, 2:11 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE2 hr
May 26, 2:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Erie, Huron, Lorain, Medina, Richland and 1 more54 min
May 26, 3:31 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE119 min
May 26, 3:58 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningCLEHancock26 hr
May 26, 5:28 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningCLETrumbull43 hr
May 26, 6:32 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCLESandusky, Seneca6 hr
May 26, 6:36 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCLEMorrow6 hr
May 26, 6:50 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCLEAshland, Medina, Portage, Summit6 hr
May 26, 7:29 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCLEHancock, Wood, Wyandot5 hr
May 26, 8:33 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningCLETrumbull39 hr
May 26, 8:46 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningCLEAshland, Holmes, Knox, Richland8 hr
May 26, 8:57 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningCLEErie, Huron10 hr
May 26, 10:06 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningCLELorain46 hr
May 26, 10:20 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningCLESeneca32 hr
May 26, 10:21 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningCLEMarion44 hr
May 26, 10:21 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningCLEMarion4 days
May 26, 11:02 AM EDTFlood WatchCLEAshland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 22 more11 hr
May 26, 11:21 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningCLECrawford, Marion, Morrow, Wyandot25 hr
May 26, 12:47 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningCLEOttawa, Wood24 hr
May 26, 1:35 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCLELucas5 hr
May 26, 3:05 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningCLEMedina, Summit, Wayne7 hr
May 26, 3:54 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE111 min
May 26, 4:26 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningCLEAshland, Holmes, Knox, Richland17 hr
May 26, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula66 min
May 26, 4:43 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningCLEHancock, Sandusky, Seneca7 hr
May 26, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Knox, Morrow, Richland45 min
May 26, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Summit, Wayne40 min
May 26, 5:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Lake26 min
May 26, 5:26 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningCLEMahoning29 hr
May 26, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland, Richland, Wayne45 min
May 26, 5:31 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE119 min
May 26, 5:48 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Erie, Huron, Lorain7 hr
May 26, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga34 min
May 26, 6:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLELorain5 hr
May 26, 6:49 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCLELucas5 hr
May 25, 8:34 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEErie56 min
May 25, 8:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Erie53 min
May 25, 9:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Erie35 min
May 26, 12:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford67 min
May 26, 4:53 PM EDTTornado WarningCLECrawford, Erie52 min
May 26, 4:54 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningCLEErie4 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2011Every 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.