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Flash Flood Warning 66, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 19, 1990Stark County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 19, 1990, 3:39 AM EDT for Stark County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 19, 1990, 3:39 AM EDT (07:39 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 1990, 6:45 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties 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 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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 00:00Z on 1990-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 339 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1990-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
339 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 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 190752 COR
FFWCAK
OHC151-153-191045-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
339 AM EDT SUN AUG 19 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NORTHEAST OHIO
          ...STARK...SUMMIT

AT 330 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS ..PRODUCING VERY HEAVY
RAINS...OVER SUMMIT AND STARK COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO. RADAR
INDICATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF OVER AN INCH AN HOUR IN THE HEAVIER
STORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH
AND WILL CONTINUE OVER SUMMIT AND STARK COUNTIES THROUGH AT LEAST
430 AM.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
THOMPSON
...CORRECTED FOR TIME IN 2ND PARAGRAPH...

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 18, 8:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWashington60 min
Aug 19, 3:04 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain, Medina116 min
Aug 19, 6:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie56 min
Aug 19, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWyandot34 min
Aug 19, 3:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Wayne67 min
Aug 19, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes, Tuscarawas63 min
Aug 19, 4:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECoshocton58 min
Aug 19, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGuernsey62 min
Aug 19, 6:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWashington67 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.