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Areal Flood Warning 70, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this areal flood warning at Aug 14, 2011, 12:56 PM EDT for 8 counties in 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
- Aug 14, 2011, 12:56 PM EDT (16:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2011, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Erie County, OH, Huron County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Medina County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Summit County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:55 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1131 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Aug 14, 12:11 PM EDT, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 12:11 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 12:05 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1205 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2011 OHZ011>014-089-PAZ001>003-151615- CUYAHOGA-LAKE-GEAUGA-ASHTABULA INLAND-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE- NORTHERN ERIE-SOUTHERN ERIE-CRAWFORD PA- 1205 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2011 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON 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...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ021>023-029>033-038-151615- SUMMIT-PORTAGE-TRUMBULL-RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE-STARK-MAHONING-HOLMES- 1205 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTHEAST OHIO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LEZ061-142>149-162>169-OHZ003-006-017-018-027-028-036-037-047-151615- 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- HANCOCK-SENECA-WYANDOT-CRAWFORD-MARION-MORROW-KNOX- 1205 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE...NORTH CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ007>010-019-020-151615- OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-LORAIN-HURON-MEDINA- 1205 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2011 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON 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...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 10:09 AM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1009 AM EDT SUN AUG 14 2011 OHZ007>010-141445- ERIE-LORAIN-OTTAWA-SANDUSKY- 1009 AM EDT SUN AUG 14 2011 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR EASTERN OTTAWA...NORTHEASTERN SANDUSKY...NORTHERN ERIE AND NORTHERN LORAIN COUNTIES UNTIL 1045 AM EDT... WATERSPOUTS DEVELOPING OVER LAKE ERIE...SOME ASSOCIATED WITH WEAK THUNDERSTORMS...COULD MOVE OVER WESTERN LAKESHORE COUNTIES. THE WATERSPOUTS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO DO ANY DAMAGE AND WILL LIKELY LIFT QUICKLY. WATERSPOUTS MAY REDEVELOP THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS AS MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FORM OVER THE WARM LAKE WATERS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 9:40 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 80 min | |
| Aug 14, 10:33 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CLE | Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 10:57 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 93 min | |
| Aug 14, 2:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 113 min | |
| Aug 14, 2:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake, Portage, Trumbull | 10 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:46 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | CLE | Geauga, Portage, Summit | 10 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:46 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 10 hr |
| Aug 14, 3:30 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CLE | 24 hr | |
| Aug 14, 6:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 7:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina | 6 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.