Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1989, 6:42 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1989, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1989, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 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 132243
FFWCAK
OHC151-140145-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
642 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
...STARK
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE MOVED INTO STARK COUNTY.
THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A COMPLEX THAT CAUSED WIDESPREAD STREET
FLOODING IN SUMMIT AND PORTAGE COUNTIES. RAINFALL AT THE AKRON-CANTON
AIRPORT HAS BEEN MORE THAN .6 OF AN INCH IN ABOUT 20 MINUTES.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
BROOKYWhat 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, Jun 13, 3:18 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 317 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 1989 RADAR SHOWS THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. AT 310 PM... RADAR SHOWED AN INCREASING AREA OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO BETWEEN VERMILION... PORT CLINTON... BOWLING GREEN... TIFFIN AND OBERLIN. THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAINS. LOW CLOUDS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH SOME OF THE STORMS. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN AREA BETWEEN 4 AND 530 PM. STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS... POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AND A WIND GUST TO 30 MPH. DRAG
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 4:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 412 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 1989 THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS MAY GREET RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC IN EASTERN OHIO THIS EVENING. RADAR AT 400 PM WAS SHOWING A SCATTERED LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PACKING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...FROM NEAR CLEVELAND TO ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF ZANESVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH AND WILL REACH AN AKRON- CAMBRIDGE LINE AROUND 500PM AND A WARREN-ST. CLAIRSVILLE AROUND 600PM. IN ADDITION TO VERY HEAVY RAINS...WIND GUSTS TO ABOUT 35 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THOSE PLANNING ON BEING ON THE ROAD EARLY THIS EVENING SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE STORMS AND BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING DRIVING CONDITIONS. BROOKY
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 4:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 420 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 1989 THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. AT 415 PM... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL OHIO BETWEEN VERMILLION... LORAIN... AND WELLINGTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN AREA BETWEEN 5 PM AND 630 PM. THE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAINS. AN OBSERVER IN BERLIN HTS REPORTED 1 INCH OF RAIN IN 30 MINUTES AND AN OBSERVER IN SANDUSKY RECEIVED 1 INCH OF RAIN IN 45 MINUTES. THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS... POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH. SOME PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS WILL ALSO OCCUR. SJN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 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.