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Areal Flood Warning 45, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 7, 2013Lucas County, Wood County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this areal flood warning at Aug 7, 2013, 12:09 PM EDT for Lucas County, Wood 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
Aug 7, 2013, 12:09 PM EDT (16:09 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2013, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Lucas County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:10 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2013-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1279 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2013-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 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
1279 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.6

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 11:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESeneca45 min
Aug 7, 11:58 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningCLESeneca6 hr
Aug 7, 12:04 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCLE116 min
Aug 7, 12:24 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCLEErie, Huron, Lorain, Ottawa, Sandusky6 hr
Aug 7, 12:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina39 min
Aug 7, 1:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESandusky, Seneca24 min
Aug 7, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne33 min
Aug 7, 3:01 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEStark, Wayne44 min
Aug 7, 3:27 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEStark48 min
Aug 7, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes, Wayne50 min
Aug 7, 3:54 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEHolmes, Stark, Wayne51 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2013Every areal flood warning in 2013

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.