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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 24, 2014Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 2014, 8:05 PM EDT for Holmes 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 2014, 8:05 PM EDT (00:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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 (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 652 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1347 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

118 
WGUS51 KCLE 250005
FFWCLE
OHC075-251000-
/O.NEW.KCLE.FF.W.0017.140625T0005Z-140625T1000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
805 PM EDT TUE JUN 24 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HOLMES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 600 AM EDT WEDNESDAY.

* AT 801 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF HOLMES 
COUNTY. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR OVERNIGHT

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MILLERSBURG...
  HOLMESVILLE...
  NASHVILLE...
  KILLBUCK...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.

&&

LAT...LON 4045 8218 4057 8218 4057 8222 4067 8222
      4067 8165 4045 8166 4044 8167

$$

1 follow-up statement

046 
WGUS71 KCLE 250354
FFSCLE

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1154 PM EDT TUE JUN 24 2014

OHC075-251000-
/O.CON.KCLE.FF.W.0017.000000T0000Z-140625T1000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
HOLMES OH-
1154 PM EDT TUE JUN 24 2014

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR HOLMES COUNTY UNTIL AT 
LEAST 600 AM EDT WEDNESDAY...

LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED ACROSS HOLMES 
COUNTY DUE TO FLOODING. THE KILLBUCK CREEK WAS IN FLOOD. ADDITIONAL 
RAIN WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA OVERNIGHT. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE AND 
NEW FLOODING IS POSSIBLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF DRIVING...SLOW DOWN! BE ALERT FOR LOW
SPOTS...DIPS...AND UNDERPASSES WHICH MAY BE FLOODED. PEOPLE IN LOW 
LYING AREAS ALONG CREEKS AND STREAMS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF 
FLOODING OCCURS.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN!

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLASH FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR 
OCCURRING. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG 
STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE 
AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS A FLOODED AREA ON FOOT OR BY 
AUTOMOBILE.

&&

LAT...LON 4045 8218 4057 8218 4057 8222 4067 8222
      4067 8165 4045 8166 4044 8167

$$

KOSARIK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 8:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake	12 hr
Jun 24, 9:40 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Lorain	7 days
Jun 24, 10:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Ashland, Knox, Richland	6 hr
Jun 24, 11:57 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Lake	7 days
Jun 25, 1:48 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Huron	8 hr
Jun 25, 4:20 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Knox	6 hr
Jun 25, 4:28 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Ashland, Richland	6 hr
Jun 25, 4:40 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Erie	28 hr
Jun 25, 5:59 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Holmes	8 hr
Jun 25, 8:48 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Trumbull	12 hr
Jun 25, 9:32 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Cuyahoga, Huron, Lorain, Mahoning, Medina, Portage and 2 more	6 hr
Jun 25, 10:11 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Knox	6 hr
Jun 25, 11:04 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Lake	13 hr
Jun 25, 1:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Holmes	3 hr
Jun 25, 4:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Lucas, Wood	3 hr

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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.