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Areal Flood Advisory 9, NWS Cleveland, OH

March 16, 2012Huron County, Seneca County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this areal flood advisory at Mar 16, 2012, 10:58 AM EDT for Huron County, Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 16, 2012, 10:58 AM EDT (14:58 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 2012, 2:56 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Huron County, OH, Seneca County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:55 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -248 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 883 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Mar 16, 9:47 AM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 9:47 AM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 16, 5:45 AM EDT, 5 hours 13 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 15, 9:49 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		116 min
Mar 15, 9:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Lucas, Ottawa	4 hr
Mar 15, 11:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Erie, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Wood	6 hr
Mar 16, 2:29 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Huron, Seneca	6 hr
Mar 16, 4:16 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Lake	2 hr
Mar 16, 5:00 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Sandusky	10 hr
Mar 16, 5:01 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Lucas	5 hr
Mar 16, 8:25 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Huron, Seneca	3 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in Ohio, 2012 Every 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.