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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Cleveland, OH

December 31, 1989Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Dec 31, 1989, 3:30 PM EST for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 31, 1989, 3:30 PM EST (20:30 UTC)
Expired
Dec 31, 1989, 8:00 PM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Holmes 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1989-12-31Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1989-12-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 492 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
492 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
518 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 312037 COR
FFWCAK
OHC167-075-010130-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
330 PM EST SUN DEC 31 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 8PM EST FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY AND EXTENDD THE FLASH FLOOD
WARNING UNTIL 8PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN HOLMES COUNTY....

IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
          ...WASHINGTON
IN EAST CANTRAL OHIO
          ...HOLMES

ICE JAMS WILL LIKELY DIVERT STREAMS AND BLOCK STREAMS IN HOLMES AND
WASHINGTON COUNTIES OH.

PERSONS IN VEHICLES SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER BLOCKING ROADWAYS
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.

NNNN

MARTIN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 31, 11:02 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEHolmes5 hr
Dec 31, 11:20 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEWashington4 hr
Dec 31, 3:30 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEWashington5 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.