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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH

February 15, 1989Washington County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Feb 15, 1989, 6:15 PM EST for Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 15, 1989, 6:15 PM EST (23:15 UTC)
Expired
Feb 16, 1989, 12:15 AM EST
In force
6 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, 11.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1989-02-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1989-02-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCAK 152318
FFWCAK
OHC167-161115-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING - RE-ISSUED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
615 PM EST WED FEB 15 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 AM EST
THU FEB 16,1989 FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
          ...WASHINGTON

RAINFALL OF .85 INCH REPORTED FROM LITTLE HOCKING (WASHINGTON COUNTY)
SINCE 7AM TODAY. TOTAL OF 3.07 INCHES SINCE 3PM MONDAY. LITTLE HOCKING
AND WEST BRANCH RIVERS ARE RUNNING BANKFUL. SHERIFF REPORTS 6 ROADS
CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.

KEHNER
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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 15, 2:07 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEWashington4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989

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.