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Flood Watch 2, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 28, 202324 counties in Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flood watch at Jul 28, 2023, 10:17 AM EDT for 24 counties in Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 2023, 10:17 AM EDT (14:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2023, 8:00 AM EDT
In force: 22 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Flood severity: None

All 26 counties

Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Erie County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Huron County, OH, Lake County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Medina County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Portage County, OH, Richland County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:17 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 (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 1660 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 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 flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Jul 28, 7:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 7:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 17 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 28, 10:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Wyandot	46 min
Jul 28, 11:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Crawford, Marion, Wyandot	48 min
Jul 28, 11:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Knox, Morrow, Richland	47 min
Jul 28, 12:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Lorain	27 min
Jul 28, 12:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Crawford, Knox, Morrow, Richland	41 min
Jul 28, 12:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		67 min
Jul 28, 12:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Lorain	43 min
Jul 28, 12:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Holmes, Lorain, Medina, Richland, Wayne	41 min
Jul 28, 1:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Cuyahoga	33 min
Jul 28, 1:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Stark, Wayne	51 min
Jul 28, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning, Portage, Stark	39 min
Jul 28, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		67 min
Jul 28, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Ashtabula	48 min
Jul 28, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	29 min
Jul 28, 6:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CLE	Ashtabula	3 hr
Jul 28, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Crawford	45 min
Jul 28, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Erie	39 min
Jul 28, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Erie	50 min
Jul 28, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Erie	48 min
Jul 28, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Crawford	26 min
Jul 28, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Crawford	46 min
Jul 28, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford, Erie	24 min
Jul 28, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	25 min
Jul 28, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	39 min
Jul 28, 6:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Crawford	48 min
Jul 28, 7:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Crawford	3 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.