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Areal Flood Warning 24, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this areal flood warning at May 12, 2014, 5:09 PM EDT for Erie County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 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
- May 12, 2014, 5:09 PM EDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2014, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Erie County, OH, Lorain County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1025 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 12, 3:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 3:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 12, 9:12 AM EDT, 7 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 912 AM EDT MON MAY 12 2014 OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-131315- LUCAS-WOOD-OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-GEAUGA- ASHTABULA INLAND-HANCOCK-SENECA-HURON-MEDINA-SUMMIT-PORTAGE-TRUMBULL- WYANDOT-CRAWFORD-RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE-STARK-MAHONING-MARION-MORROW- HOLMES-KNOX-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-SOUTHERN ERIE- CRAWFORD PA- 912 AM EDT MON MAY 12 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHEAST OHIO...NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS ESPECIALLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING COULD BE SEVERE. THE GREATEST THREAT WOULD BE FROM LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THERE WILL BE PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THIS COULD PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE. LEZ061-142>149-162>169-131315- 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- 912 AM EDT MON MAY 12 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 64 min |
| May 11, 8:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CLE | Knox, Morrow | 3 hr |
| May 11, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 66 min |
| May 12, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 115 min | |
| May 12, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Richland | 44 min |
| May 12, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 47 min |
| May 12, 4:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CLE | Erie, Lorain | 3 hr |
| May 12, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 77 min | |
| May 12, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Lorain | 42 min |
| May 12, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 hr | |
| May 12, 6:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie, Lorain | 24 min |
| May 12, 7:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lorain | 39 min |
| May 12, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 95 min | |
| May 12, 7:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 48 min |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2014Every areal flood warning in 2014
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.