Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 127, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Dec 30, 1990, 3:48 PM EST for Sandusky County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 30, 1990, 3:48 PM EST (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 30, 1990, 7:45 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sandusky 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
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 106 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 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 KTOL 302100 COR
FFWTOL
OHC143-310045-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING... CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
400 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
...SANDUSKY
THE SANDUSKY COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT SMALL STREAMS
CONTINUED TO RISE THIS AFTERNOON CAUSING MANY FLOODED ROADS. AS THE
TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO FALL LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING THE LIGHT
RAIN FALLING IN SANDUSKY COUNTY WILL CHANGE TO SNOW. THIS WILL SLOW
THE DRAINAGE INTO THE SMALL STREAMS AND THE WATER LEVELS SHOULD BEGIN
TO LEVEL OFF OR SLOWLY FALL.
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.
CB
... CORRECTED WORDING LINE 2 OF TEXT...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, Dec 30, 2:04 PM EST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
OHZALL-302205- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 205 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990 THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES THAT ARE IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF OHIO WILL BE CANCELLED LATER THIS AFTERNOON. RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL OVER ALMOST ALL OF OHIO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE COLD FRONT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHERN OHIO AND WILL BE ALONG THE OHIO RIVER BY EARLY THIS EVENING. COLD AIR WAS POURING INTO THE WESTERN PART OF THE STATE BEHIND THIS FRONT...AND SHOULD CAUSE THE RAIN TO CHANGE OVER TO FREEZING RAIN IN THE WEST LATE THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE TURNING TO SNOW THIS EVENING. THE PRECIPITATION BEHIND THE COLD FRONT IS FAIRLY LIGHT...THOUGH...AND ACCUMULATIONS OF FREEZING RAIN AND SNOW WILL LIKELY NOT BE AS MUCH AS WAS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT. SNOW AMOUNTS OF AN INCH OR LESS ARE LIKELY THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING. BECAUSE OF THIS...THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES WILL BE DROPPED LATER THIS AFTERNOON. PARTAIN
Special weather statement, Dec 30, 3:39 PM EST, 9 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-302200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 336 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990 THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWEST OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 330 PM RADAR AND SURFACE REPORTS INDICATED THAT A MIXED BAG OF PRECIPITATION WAS OCCURRING OVER NORTHWEST OHIO. LIGHT SNOW AND SLEET WERE FALLING OVER THE NORTHERN COUNTIES WHILE MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN WAS FALLING ELSEWHERE IN NORTHWEST OHIO. THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD CHANGE TO ALL SNOW BEFORE ENDING TONIGHT...BUT THE ACCUMULATATION WILL NOT BE AS MUCH AS WAS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT. COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENTS WERE REPORTING THAT ROADS WERE BECOMING SLIPPERY. EXCESS WATER ON THE ROADS WILL TURN TO ICE AS THE TEMPERATURES FALL THIS EVENING AND SNOW ON TOP OF THE ICE WILL MAKE TRAVELING HAZARDOUS. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION. CB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 10:33 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Hancock, Putnam | 3 hr |
| Dec 29, 10:33 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Seneca, Wyandot | 3 hr |
| Dec 29, 10:33 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 3 hr |
| Dec 29, 11:35 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Fulton, Lucas | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 12:33 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Lorain | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 12:33 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 12:33 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lake | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 1:28 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Summit, Wayne | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 1:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky, Wood | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 1:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Hancock, Henry, Putnam | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 1:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Seneca, Wyandot | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 2:34 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Fulton | 116 min |
| Dec 30, 2:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Fulton | 110 min |
| Dec 30, 2:41 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 2:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Monroe, Noble, Washington | 5 hr |
| Dec 30, 2:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Carroll, Holmes, Stark, Tuscarawas, Wayne | 5 hr |
| Dec 30, 2:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Coshocton, Guernsey | 5 hr |
| Dec 30, 2:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Harrison | 5 hr |
| Dec 30, 6:56 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Lorain | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 6:56 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 6:56 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Medina | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 10:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 10:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 10:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 11:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 2 hr |
| Dec 30, 12:56 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 2 hr |
| Dec 30, 1:27 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Lorain | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 1:27 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 1:27 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 1:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 118 min |
| Dec 30, 2:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 4 hr |
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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.