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Areal Flood Advisory 39, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 7, 2012Mahoning County, Trumbull County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this areal flood advisory at Sep 7, 2012, 6:26 PM EDT for Mahoning County, Trumbull County, Ohio. It was in force for 81 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 7, 2012, 6:26 PM EDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 2012, 7:47 PM EDT
In force
81 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Mahoning County, OH, Trumbull County, OH

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 2012-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1010 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2012-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1010 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1160 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
3.3

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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 Sep 6, 7:40 PM EDT, 22 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 7:40 PM EDT, 22 hours 46 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 2:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Medina, Summit48 min
Sep 7, 2:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHancock, Wood58 min
Sep 7, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Huron, Seneca54 min
Sep 7, 3:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Marion, Wyandot62 min
Sep 7, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron57 min
Sep 7, 3:28 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE77 min
Sep 7, 3:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Huron, Seneca19 min
Sep 7, 4:26 PM EDTGale WarningCLE23 hr
Sep 7, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit46 min
Sep 7, 4:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina29 min
Sep 7, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage56 min
Sep 7, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning, Portage, Stark, Trumbull53 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in Ohio, 2012Every areal flood advisory in 2012

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.