Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 1990, 5:21 AM EDT for Ashland County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 1990, 5:21 AM EDT (09:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1990, 8:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashland 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 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 KCLE 120922
FFWMFD
OHC005-121230-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MANSFIELD OH
ISSUED BY CLEVELAND OH
521 AM EDT THU JUL 12 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
...ASHLAND
AT 520 THIS MORNING WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED HEAVY RAINS OVER
CENTRAL ASHLAND COUNTY. THESE RAINS WERE NOT MOVING MUCH AND WERE
FALLING ON ABOUT THE SAME PLACE WHERE HEAVY RAINS OCCURRED EARLIER
THIS MORNING. AS A RESULT... FLOODING IS LIKELY TO DEVELOP.
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.
JKWhat 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 12, 2:24 AM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
OHZ005-010-120720- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTON OH 220 AM EDT THU JUL 12 1990 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL MOVING ACROSS THE MIAMI VALLEY AT 215 AM EDT. AT 215 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS PREBLE...DARKE... MIAMI...AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES OF WESTERN OHIO. SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL IN SOUTHERN DARKE COUNTY AT 205 AM EDT AND HEAVY RAIN REDUCING VISIBLITY TO ONE TENTH OF A MILE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE ACROSS THE MIAMI VALLEY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RISING WATER AND PONDING OF STREETS IN LOW LYING AREAS AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE MIAMI VALLEY. PADGETT
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 2:48 AM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-120800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 248 AM EDT THU JUL 12 1990 AT 230 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH IMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA...AND WESTERN OHIO. THE RAIN AREA EXTENDED FROM COLUMBUS OHIO...SOUTHWEST TO NEAR EVANSVILLE INDIANA. THE HEAVIEST OF THE RAIN WAS FROM RICHMOND INDIANA TO 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY. MOVEMENT OF THE RAIN WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL MOVE INTO THE CINCINNATI TRISTATE AREA BY 4AM AND LAST UNTIL DAYBREAK. HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY THIS MORNING WITH AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES POSSIBLY LOCALLY. IF YOU ARE OUT DRIVING THIS MORNING AND ENCOUNTER ANY STANDING OR FLOWING WATER ACROSS STREETS OR ROADS...PLEASE AVOID THEM AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWESTERN OHIO FOR THE REST OF THIS MORNING. MANUEL
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 4:47 AM EDT, 34 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-121000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 446 AM EDT THU JUL 12 1990 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WERE CROSSING THE TRISTATE THIS MORNING. AT 430 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH IMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN OHIO...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. THE HEAVIEST OF THE RAIN WAS FROM VERSAILLES INDIANA TO CORINTH KENTUCKY OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH AND WEST OF CINCINNATI OHIO. MOVEMENT OF THE RAIN WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSILE HAIL AS THEY CROSS THE TRISTATE AREA THIS MORNING. AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. IF YOU ARE OUT DRIVING THIS MORNING AND ENCOUNTER ANY STANDING OR FLOWING WATER ACROSS STREETS OR ROADS...PLEASE AVOID THEM AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWESTERN OHIO FOR T~HE REST OF THIS MORNING. MANUEL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 10:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Montgomery, Preble | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 10:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clark | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 12:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ashland | 119 min |
| Jul 12, 5:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Crawford, Richland | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 8:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ashland, Richland | 2 hr |
| Jul 12, 9:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Crawford, Morrow | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 9:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Knox | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 10:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ashland, Crawford, Knox, Morrow, Richland | 5 hr |
| Jul 12, 10:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Greene | 3 hr |
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.