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Areal Flood Warning 46, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 18, 2014Stark County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this areal flood warning at Jun 18, 2014, 4:54 AM EDT for Stark County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 10 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: Jun 18, 2014, 4:54 AM EDT (08:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2014, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:55 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 521 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 254 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.2

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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 Jun 18, 3:52 AM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 3:52 AM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 12:10 AM EDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 17, 10:58 PM EDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 12:01 AM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 12:36 AM EDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 12:57 AM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 1:13 AM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 1:19 AM EDT, 3 hours 35 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
Jun 17, 8:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		89 min
Jun 17, 8:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	39 min
Jun 17, 9:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	60 min
Jun 17, 9:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	6 hr
Jun 17, 10:21 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		84 min
Jun 17, 10:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake	60 min
Jun 18, 2:20 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Mahoning, Portage, Stark, Summit	6 hr
Jun 18, 7:48 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	6 hr
Jun 18, 11:21 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Stark	34 hr
Jun 18, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Portage, Trumbull	43 min
Jun 18, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Ottawa, Wood	60 min
Jun 18, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		118 min
Jun 18, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	61 min
Jun 18, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	52 min
Jun 18, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	52 min
Jun 18, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Hancock, Sandusky, Seneca, Wyandot	45 min
Jun 18, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Trumbull	59 min
Jun 18, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain, Medina	42 min
Jun 18, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jun 18, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Lorain	48 min
Jun 18, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	59 min
Jun 18, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Stark, Summit	49 min
Jun 18, 6:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	6 hr
Jun 18, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Seneca	39 min
Jun 18, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga	46 min
Jun 18, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	39 min
Jun 18, 6:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Lorain	6 hr
Jun 18, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Geauga, Lake	65 min
Jun 18, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Trumbull	61 min
Jun 18, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		89 min
Jun 18, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	43 min
Jun 18, 7:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Erie	62 min

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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.