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Flood Watch 5, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flood watch at Aug 2, 2026, 1:54 AM EDT for 28 counties in Ohio; Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 20 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2026, 1:54 AM EDT (05:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2026, 9:48 PM EDT
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Flood severity
- None
All 30 counties
Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Erie County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lake County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Morrow 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), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 241 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 949 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:45 AM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | CLE | Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Lake, Lorain, Lucas and 1 more | 31 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:46 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CLE | 31 hr | |
| Aug 2, 9:41 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CLE | Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:10 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 65 min | |
| Aug 2, 3:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 89 min | |
| Aug 2, 4:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CLE | 2 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.