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Areal Flood Warning 13, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 24, 2023Ashland County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this areal flood warning at Aug 24, 2023, 12:59 PM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 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: Aug 24, 2023, 12:59 PM EDT (16:59 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 2023, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Ashland County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 1559 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.9

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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 Aug 24, 9:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 9:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 24, 4:55 AM EDT, 8 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 24, 8:01 AM EDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 24, 9:49 AM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 24, 9:53 AM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 24, 12:23 PM EDT, 36 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
Aug 23, 8:06 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake	5 hr
Aug 23, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		95 min
Aug 23, 8:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CLE	Cuyahoga, Erie, Lorain	66 min
Aug 23, 8:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lorain	5 hr
Aug 23, 8:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lake	5 hr
Aug 23, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Erie, Huron, Lorain, Medina, Wayne	62 min
Aug 23, 9:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina, Summit	5 hr
Aug 23, 9:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Stark, Summit	4 hr
Aug 23, 9:36 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain	5 hr
Aug 23, 9:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Aug 23, 9:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Stark, Summit	5 hr
Aug 23, 9:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CLE	Ashland, Huron, Lorain, Medina, Wayne	56 min
Aug 23, 9:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Ashland, Lorain, Medina, Wayne	46 min
Aug 23, 10:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland, Lorain, Medina, Stark, Summit, Wayne	6 hr
Aug 23, 10:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron, Lorain, Ottawa, Sandusky	46 min
Aug 23, 10:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron, Ottawa	6 hr
Aug 23, 10:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Holmes, Richland, Wayne	52 min
Aug 23, 10:50 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Lake	6 hr
Aug 23, 11:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland, Holmes, Richland, Wayne	5 hr
Aug 23, 11:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	33 min
Aug 23, 11:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Erie, Huron, Richland, Sandusky, Seneca	60 min
Aug 23, 11:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	CLE	Ashland, Erie, Huron, Lorain, Medina	6 hr
Aug 23, 11:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	62 min
Aug 23, 11:39 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Lorain	60 hr
Aug 23, 11:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Aug 23, 11:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Holmes, Knox	6 hr
Aug 23, 11:57 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Summit	2 hr
Aug 24, 12:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron, Sandusky, Seneca	62 min
Aug 24, 12:17 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		88 min
Aug 24, 12:18 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca	6 hr
Aug 24, 12:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Ottawa	49 min
Aug 24, 12:46 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca	5 hr
Aug 24, 1:19 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Crawford, Wyandot	5 hr
Aug 24, 1:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Hancock, Seneca, Wyandot	51 min
Aug 24, 1:43 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lake	9 hr
Aug 24, 1:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Hancock, Marion, Morrow, Wyandot	41 min
Aug 24, 1:56 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Aug 24, 1:59 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain	11 hr
Aug 24, 2:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Lucas, Wood	43 min
Aug 24, 2:21 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Marion, Morrow	5 hr
Aug 24, 2:42 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Stark	5 hr
Aug 24, 3:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas, Ottawa, Wood	44 min
Aug 24, 3:03 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		87 min
Aug 24, 3:05 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Erie, Lorain	31 hr
Aug 24, 3:05 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Erie	26 hr
Aug 24, 3:22 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	4 hr
Aug 24, 3:35 AM EDT	Excessive Heat Warning	CLE	Hancock, Lucas, Wood	17 hr
Aug 24, 3:35 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	CLE	Crawford, Knox, Marion, Morrow, Ottawa, Sandusky and 2 more	17 hr
Aug 24, 4:19 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland, Wayne	9 hr
Aug 24, 4:28 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland, Erie, Huron, Lorain, Medina, Ottawa	8 hr
Aug 24, 4:36 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland, Holmes, Richland, Wayne	8 hr
Aug 24, 4:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Hancock, Wyandot	3 hr
Aug 24, 6:08 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Crawford, Erie, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca and 1 more	7 hr
Aug 24, 7:42 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Lucas, Wood	5 hr
Aug 24, 12:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Lorain	118 min
Aug 24, 12:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Erie, Huron	115 min
Aug 24, 1:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Sandusky	2 hr
Aug 24, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		83 min
Aug 24, 2:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Cuyahoga, Lorain	2 hr
Aug 24, 2:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Ashland	2 hr
Aug 24, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Portage, Summit	50 min
Aug 24, 3:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CLE	Ashland	31 hr

Nearby

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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.