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Areal Flood Warning 16, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 14, 2015Cuyahoga County, Geauga County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this areal flood warning at Jul 14, 2015, 1:07 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Geauga 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: Jul 14, 2015, 1:07 PM EDT (17:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2015, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Geauga County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:10 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 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.

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: 38 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -234 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 14, 12:45 PM EDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 12:45 PM EDT, 22 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
Jul 14, 11:24 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	CLE	Ashland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 18 more	9 hr
Jul 14, 12:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky, Seneca, Wood	67 min
Jul 14, 12:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Sandusky, Seneca, Wood	3 hr
Jul 14, 1:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga	43 min
Jul 14, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion, Morrow	48 min
Jul 14, 1:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina, Wayne	39 min
Jul 14, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	56 min
Jul 14, 1:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Knox	48 min
Jul 14, 2:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga, Portage, Trumbull	44 min
Jul 14, 2:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga, Portage	6 hr
Jul 14, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	54 min
Jul 14, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage, Stark	51 min
Jul 14, 2:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Holmes	31 min
Jul 14, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	45 min
Jul 14, 3:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Holmes	6 hr
Jul 14, 4:12 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	CLE	Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Lake, Lorain, Lucas and 1 more	24 hr
Jul 14, 4:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Portage, Summit	3 hr
Jul 14, 4:25 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CLE		24 hr
Jul 13, 9:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Erie	37 min
Jul 13, 10:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Erie	4 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2015 Every areal flood warning in 2015

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.