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Flash Flood Warning 78, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 1990, 3:53 AM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1990, 3:53 AM EDT (07:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1990, 7:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Lorain 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 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 629 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1059 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCLE 070800
FFWCLE
OHC035-093-071100-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
353 AM EDT FRI SEP 7 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
...CUYAHOGA...LORAIN
AT 345 AM RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH
OHIO AND LAKE ERIE. MOST WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. THE
STORMS WERE POSITIONED SO CUYAHOGA AND LORAIN COUNTIES COULD
EXPERIENCE REPEATED HEAVY RAINS EARLY THIS MORNING. SINCE MANY SPOTS
THERE GOT HEAVY RAIN ALREADY OVERNIGHT... FLOODING PROBLE&MS ARE LIKELY
TO DEVELOP.
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake | 56 min |
| Sep 6, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Columbiana, Mahoning | 58 min |
| Sep 6, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 65 min |
| Sep 6, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 87 min |
| Sep 6, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 54 min |
| Sep 6, 9:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 67 min |
| Sep 6, 9:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 61 min |
| Sep 7, 12:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Harrison, Jefferson | 4 hr |
| Sep 7, 12:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 43 min |
| Sep 7, 12:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 2 hr |
| Sep 7, 12:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit | 4 hr |
| Sep 7, 1:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Medina | 2 hr |
| Sep 7, 2:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 4:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit | 4 hr |
| Sep 7, 5:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Jefferson | 7 hr |
| Sep 7, 6:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 8:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit | 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.