Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Feb 15, 1989, 2:07 PM EST for Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 1989, 2:07 PM EST (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 1989, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, OH
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCAK 151910
FFWCAK
OHC167-152315-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
207 PM EST WED FEB 15 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
...WASHINGTON
RAINFALL OF .50 INCH REPORTED FROM LITTLE HOCKING (WASHINGTON COUNTY)
SINCE 7AM TODAY. TOTAL OF 2.72 INCHES SINCE 3PM MONDAY. LITTLE HOCKING
AND WEST BRANCH RIVERS ARE RUNNING BANKFUL. SHERIFF REPORTS WATER ON
SOME COUNTY ROADS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE} WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 8:33 AM EST, 5 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 830 AM EST WED FEB 15 1989 A MIXED BAG OF WET WEATHER WAS CAUSING PROBLEMS OVER THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF OHIO. A MIXTURE OF RAIN... FREEZING RAIN... SNOW AND SLEET WAS OCCURING OVER THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF OHIO THIS MORNING. THERE WAS ALSO A LITTLE SNOW OVER NORTHWEST PARTS OF OHIO. THIS CONFUSED COMBINATION OF WINTERY WEATHER IN THE NORTHEAST WAS CAUSING ROADS TO BECOME SLICK IN SOME AREAS. MOTORISTS IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE EXTRA CAREFUL THIS MORNING AND ALLOW A LITTLE EXTRA TIME TO MAKE IT TO THEIR DESTINATIONS. THE VARIETY OF WET WEATHER WILL CHANGE OVER TO ALL RAIN DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING. ANY PROBLEMS WITH ICY OR SLIPPERY ROADS SHOULD COME TO AN END BY THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN TO DROP OFF OVER ALL OF NORTHERN OHIO LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT... AND THE THREAT FOR MORE WINTERY TYPE WEATHER WILL ONCE AGAIN RETURN. VRCEK
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 9:22 AM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 920 AM EST WED FEB 15 1989 ...NASTY WEATHER COVERS MOST OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... A COMBINATION OF RAIN...SLEET...SNOW AND FOG COVERS MOST OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THIS MORNING CREATING HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE CRITICAL IN DETERMINING WHERE THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN RAIN AND FREEZING PRECIPITATION WILL OCCUR TODAY. THE MORNING TEMPERATURES OF THE LOW 30S ARE FORECAST TO RISE TO AROUND 40 IN THE AFTERNOON. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO EXERCISE CAUTION AND ALLOW EXTRA DRIVING TIME. REEDY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 6:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Washington | 6 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.