Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 81, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 1990, 6:55 AM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1990, 6:55 AM EDT (10:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1990, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cuyahoga 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 KCLE 071057
FFWCLE
OHC035-071400-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
655 AM EDT FRI SEP 7 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
...CUYAHOGA
AT 640 AM THE VALLEY VIEW POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT STREET
FLOODING CONTINUED TO CAUSE PROBLEMS IN SOUTHEAST CUYAHOGA COUNTY.
STREETS AND UNDERPASES MAY ALSO BE FLOODED IN OTHER PARTS OF THE
CLEVELAND AREA THIS MORNING.
RAINFALL HAD BECOME LIGHTER EARLY THIS MORNING... BUT IT WILL TAKE
SEVERAL HOURS FOR THE WATER TO RECEDE.
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DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE 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 QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.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, 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, 5:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Jefferson | 7 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.