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Areal Flood Warning 59, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 19, 20119 counties in Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this areal flood warning at Jun 19, 2011, 4:50 PM EDT for 9 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 4 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: Jun 19, 2011, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2011, 9:11 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Ashland County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Huron County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Richland County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 1248 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 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 Jun 19, 4:15 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 4:15 PM EDT, 35 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
Jun 19, 3:58 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CLE		18 hr
Jun 19, 6:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron, Lorain, Medina, Wayne	5 hr
Jun 19, 7:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Summit	4 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.