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River Flood Warning 20, NWS Cleveland, OH

May 4, 2025Holmes County, Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this river flood warning at May 4, 2025, 1:05 AM EDT for Holmes County, Wayne County, Ohio. It took effect at May 4, 2025, 5:09 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 4, 2025, 1:05 AM EDT (05:05 UTC)
In effect from: May 4, 2025, 5:09 AM EDT
Expired: May 9, 2025, 7:09 AM EDT
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Holmes County, OH, Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:07 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 river

Written for the forecast point Killbuck Creek at Killbuck (KILO1). The gauge peaked at 16.01 ft at May 7, 2025, 1:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 18.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03139000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at May 3, 9:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 9:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 40 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
May 4, 1:50 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CLE	Trumbull	23 hr
May 4, 7:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CLE	Ashland, Richland	46 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2025 Every river flood warning in 2025

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.