Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1989, 8:04 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1989, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1989, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbiana 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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OHC029-280300-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH
804 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN YOUNGSTOWN HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
...COLUMBIANA
RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS COLUMBIANA COUNTY THIS EVENING. ALREADY
TODAY TWO TO THREE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS SOAKED THE COUNTY AND
MOST STREAMS ARE FULL. AS OF 8PM THE COLUMBIANA COUNTY SHERIFF
REPORTED NO MAJOR FLOODING BUT WATER WAS RUNNING ACROSS STATE ROUTE 14
NEAR LISBON-CANFIELD ROAD. ALSO WATER WAS OVER TEEGARDEN ROAD WEST OF
STATE ROUTE 45 NEAR THE COVERED BRIDGE.
IF YOU LIVE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA WATCH WATER LEVELS CAREFULLY. IF
FLOODING BEGINS MOVE TO HIGH GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE2
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, Jun 27, 2:05 PM EDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 155 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT INTO THIS EVENING FOR... ...ALL OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... ...AT 150 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT STRETCHED FROM SOUTHEASTERN MKCEAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... SOUTHWEST ACROSS ELK AND INTO SOUTHEASTERN VENANGO COUNTY. ANOTHER BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED SOUTHWEST FROM THE OHIO BORDER...JUST WEST OF LINESVILLE IN CRAWFORD COUNTY...TO SOUTH OF CLEVELAND OHIO. AS THESE STORMS MOVED THROUGH GEAUGA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO ONE HALF IN HAIL WAS REPORTED. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING CRAWFORD...EASTERN MKEAN...ELK... POTTER AND EASTERN VENANGO COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND LARGE HAIL. PARRISH/PAONE
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:24 PM EDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 323 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1989 A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER WYANDOT COUNTY. AT 320 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM NEAR UPPER SANDUSKY IN WYANDOT COUNTY. WYANDOT COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAINS AND SMALL HAIL AT TIMES. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM EDT. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER. ELH
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:28 PM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 330 PM EDT TUE JUNE 27 1989 AT 325 PM EDT A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN... STRONG WINDS AND INTENSE LIGHTNING WAS REPORTED AROUND THE LAKE MILTON AREA IN WESTERN MAHONING COUNTY. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN OHIO AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. . PEOPLE IN EASTERN OHIO AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOP. ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT. DOXEY
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 4:06 PM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MANSFIELD OH 407 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1989 AT 4 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE ENTERING SOUTHWEST ASHLAND COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVED ACROSS SOUTHERN RICHLAND COUNTY. A POWER LINE WAS REPORTED DOWN IN MANSFIELD. IF THPREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER. ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR RICHLAND COUNTY UNTIL 445 PM EDT... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT. BANYAS
Local storm report, Jun 27, 5:01 PM EDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA
500 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1989
STORM REPORTS...FOR TUESDAY JUNE 27, 1989
EDT: EVENT
1445 LARGE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN SOUTH OF COUDERSPORT IN
POTTER COUNTY. REPORTED BY EMA.
1515 POWER LINES AND LARGE TREES DOWN IN JAMESTOWN AND GUYS MILL
IN CRAWFORD COUNTY.
1517 IN SOUTHEAST CRAWFORD CO. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH. DIME SIZE
HAIL. VERY HEAVY RAIN AT THE RATE OF AN INCH AN HOUR.
1555 FLASH FLOODING ALONG RT 257 IN CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP IN VENANGO
CO. WINDS NEAR 60 MPH AT FRANKLIN IN VENANGO CO. FLOODING
ALONG CHUB RUN IN FRANKLIN WITH SOME EVACUATIONS. 1.39 INCHES
OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR. MUD SLIDES ALONG RT 208 AT EMLENTON
IN SOUTHERN VENANGO COUNTY BY EMA.
1630 FLOODING REPORTED NEAR SENECA IN VENANGO CO BY EMA.
... MORE LATER ...
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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.