Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 1990, 5:10 AM EDT for Jefferson County, Ohio. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1990, 5:10 AM EDT (09:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1990, 12:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCAK 070912
FFWCAK
OHC081-071615-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
510 AM EDT FRI SEP 7 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
...JEFFERSON
THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO
1215PM. AT 500AM THE JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED THAT LINCOLN
AVENUE IN STEUBENVILLE WAS UNDER 6 TO 8 FEET OF WATER. SEVERAL CARS
WERE SUBMERGED AND ABOUT 30 PEOPLE EVACUATED.
RADAR AT 500AM WAS SHOWING ANOTHER AREA OF HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHEAST
OHIO WHICH WILL PROBABLY MOVE INTO JEFFERSON COUNTY BETWEEN LATER THIS
MORNING.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH 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. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
BROOKYThe 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, 3:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 4:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Stark, Summit | 4 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.