Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 1990, 9:46 AM EDT for 5 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 1990, 9:46 AM EDT (13:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1990, 12:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot 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
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTOL 221346
FFWTOL
OHC063-095-137-143-147-173-175-221645-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
946 AM EDT SUN JUL 22 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A URBAN AND SMALL
STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN THE STATE OF OHIO
HANCOCK...LUCAS...PUTNAM...SANDUSKY...SENECA...WOOD...
WYANDOT
AT 940 AM PUTNAM COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED FLOODING IN THE CITY OF
OTTAWA. AT 943 WEATHER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS WERE
FALLING OVER MUCH OF NORTHWEST OHIO. THE RAINS WILL CONTINUE
THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND FLOODING WILL OCCUR.%
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE 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 IMMEDIATELY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
ELHWhat 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, Jul 22, 4:09 AM EDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
OHZALL-231200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR OHIO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 730 AM EDT SUN JUL 22 1990 THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY SAYS THAT THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF OHIO TODAY AND TONIGHT. VRCEK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 9:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lucas | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 9:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Washington | 51 min |
| Jul 22, 7:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 7:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 33 min |
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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.