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Lakeshore Flood Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 13, 20184 counties in Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this lakeshore flood warning at Apr 13, 2018, 1:22 PM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It took effect at Apr 14, 2018, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 30 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: Apr 13, 2018, 1:22 PM EDT (17:22 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 14, 2018, 10:00 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 15, 2018, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 30 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH

Counties Erie County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Sandusky County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:27 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 779 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 414 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 427 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 lakeshore 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 lakeshore flood warning went out at Apr 13, 11:17 AM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 11:17 AM EDT, 2 hours 5 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
Apr 13, 1:09 PM EDT	Gale Warning	CLE		51 hr

Nearby

Lakeshore Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2018 Every lakeshore flood warning in 2018

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.