Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 19, 1991, 5:28 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1991, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1991, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ottawa County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 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 KTOL 192131 FFWTOL OHC123-192330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 528 PM EDT MON AUG 19 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ...OTTAWA COUNTY AT 525 PM A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER OTTAWA COUNTY NEAR PORT CLINTON. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. THE OTTAWA COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED THAT MANY ROADS AND SMALL STREAMS IN PORT CLINTON WERE FLOODED. 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. CB
What 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, Aug 19, 2:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
OHZ004-007-192000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 240 PM EDT MON AUG 19 1991 THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING TO RUMBLE THROUGH EASTERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON WITH HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS. AT 235 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS IN A LINE FROM NEAR YOUNGSTOWN SOUTH TO MARIETTA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE OUT OF OHIO BY 4 PM. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING IN BELMONT...MNOBLE...AND MONROE COUNTIES. GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL COULD ALSO ACCOMPANY SOME OF THESE STORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST AND ALL OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
OHZALL-182000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 247 PM EDT MON AUG 19 1991 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 737 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF OHIO. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTHEAST INLAND... CARROLL COLUMBIANA JEFFERSON STARK WAYNE ...CENTRAL... DELAWARE FAIRFIELD FAYETTE FRANKLIN HOCKING KNOX LICKING MADISON PERRY PICKAWAY ROSS UNION THE WATCH REAMINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN OHIO UNTIL 600 PM EDT. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:51 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
OHZALL-192000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 251 PM EDT MON AUG 19 1991 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 737 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF OHIO. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTHEAST INLAND... CARROLL COLUMBIANA JEFFERSON STARK WAYNE ...CENTRAL... DELAWARE FAIRFIELD FAYETTE FRANKLIN HOCKING KNOX LICKING MADISON PERRY PICKAWAY ROSS UNION THE WATCH REAMINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN OHIO UNTIL 600 PM EDT. JOHNSON/CORRECTED CODE.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 3:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
OHZ004-007-192000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 306 PM EDT MON AUG 19 1991 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHEAST OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED BUT REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO UNTIL 6PM EDT. AT 3 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME EASTERN OHIO FROM EAST LIVERPOOL TO MARIETTA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE ACROSS THE OHIO RIVER BY 4PM. HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS OVER JEFFERSON...BELMONT...MONROE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES UNTIL 4PM. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 3:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 345 PM EDT MON AUG 19 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING IN PARTS OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 340 PM RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA REACHING NORTHWARD INTO CRAWFORD COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WERE NEAR MEADVILLE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED WESTWARD ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS HAS BEEN ERATIC...BUT GENE'RALLY TOWARDS THE NORTH NORTHWEST. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. PARRISH
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 4:56 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
OHZ004-007-192200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 455 PM EDT MON AUG 19 1991 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO UNTIL 6PM EDT. AT 450 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS IN THE OHIO VALLEY FROM MARIETTA TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARIETTA NEAR NEW MARTINSVILLE WEST VIRGINIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTWY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS UNTIL 6 PM. LIGHTER RAIN WAS FALLING OVER MUCH OF SOUTHEAST OHIO SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. NIBERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 11:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 62 min |
| Aug 19, 4:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 60 min |
| Aug 19, 4:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Geauga | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 5:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 7:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 2 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.