Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 1990, 7:29 PM EDT for Portage County, Stark County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 1990, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1990, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Portage County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 609 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 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 KCAK 222342 COR
FFWCAK
OHC151-153-133-230130-
BULLETIN IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OHIO
729 PM EDT SUN JUL 22 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST OHIO...STARK SUMMIT AND PORTAGE
AT 720 PM AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN
MOVING INTO WESTERN SUMMIT AND STARK COUNTIES. THE RAIN WAS MOVING EAST
AT 25 MPH.
WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED AND STREAMS RUNNING NEAR BANKBFUL
LEVELS FROM HEAVY RAINS EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON...FLOODING OF URBAN
AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS IS LIKELY.
THOMPSONWhat 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, 6:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
OHZ004-007-222330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 610 PM EDT SUN JUL 22 1990 HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER EASTERN OHIO THIS EVENING. AT 600 PM AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF THE EASTERN HALF OF OHIO. VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE INDICATED IN WESTERN BELMONT COUNTY...WEST OF ST. CLAIRSVILLE...IN NORTHERN HARRISON COUNTY NEAR SCIO...AND IN NORTHERN HOLMES COUNTY NEAR LOUDENVILLE. THESE HEAVIER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THE PRECIPITATION PATTERN WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. A FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ALL OF EEASTERN OHIO. IF HEAVY RAINS..STRONG WINDS...OR HAIL IS OBSERVED IN YOUR AREA PLEASE ASK YO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 6:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
OHZ004-007-222330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 610 PM EDT SUN JUL 22 1990 HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER EASTERN OHIO THIS EVENING. AT 600 PM AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF THE EASTERN HALF OF OHIO. VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE INDICATED IN WESTERN BELMONT COUNTY...WEST OF ST. CLAIRSVILLE...IN NORTHERN HARRISON COUNTY NEAR SCIO...AND IN NORTHERN HOLMES COUNTY NEAR LOUDENVILLE. THESE HEAVIER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THE PRECIPITATION PATTERN WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ALL OHF EASTERN OHIO. IF HEAVY RAINS..STRONG WINDS...OR HAIL IS OBSERVED IN YOUR AREA PLEASE ASK YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THOMPSON ...CORRECTED FOR WORDING...
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 | Hancock, Putnam, Seneca, Wood, Wyandot | 3 hr |
| 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, 7:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 33 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.