Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Oct 25, 1991, 11:47 PM EDT for Paulding County, Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 1991, 11:47 PM EDT (03:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 1991, 5:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Paulding County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 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 KFWA 260349 FFWFWA OHC125-260945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 1047 PM EST (1147 PM EDT) FRI OCT 25 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 AM EST (545 AM EDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST OHIO ...PAULDING COUNTY RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 2.5 AND 3 INCHES HAVE FALLEN OVER PAULDING COUNTY IN THE PAST 12 HOURS. PERSONS IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS OF PAULDING COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR STREAM LEVELS AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF SUDDEN RISES ARE OBSERVED. PERSONS ALONG FLATROCK CREEK BETWEEN PAYNE AND PAULDING SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO STREAM LEVELS. AT 1110 PM EDT... FLATROCK CREEK AT PAYNE WAS AT 9 FEET. IT IS EXPECTED TO CREST ABOVE FLOOD STAGE OF 10 FEET. LOW LYING AREAS ALONG STATE ROAD 500 BETWEEN PAYNE AND PAULDING WILL BE AFFECTED. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS ON ROADS. JRD
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, Oct 25, 6:10 PM EDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ001-242030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 509 PM EST FRI OCT 25 1991 AT 505 PM EST /605 PM EDT... THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OVER THE CITY OF FORT WAYNE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS REDUCED VISIBILTY. THESE STORMS ALSO CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND BY 6 PM EST/7 PM EDT WILL BE LOCATED IN THE HICKSVILLE OHIO AREA. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE ADVISED TO SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THEY PASS. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS. SHOWERS WERE OVER THE REST OF THE NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO AREA AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING. JRD
Special weather statement, Oct 25, 6:11 PM EDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ001-252300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 509 PM EST FRI OCT 25 1991 AT 505 PM EST /605 PM EDT... THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OVER THE CITY OF FORT WAYNE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS REDUCED VISIBILTY. THESE STORMS ALSO CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND BY 6 PM EST/7 PM EDT WILL BE LOCATED IN THE HICKSVILLE OHIO AREA. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE ADVISED TO SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THEY PASS. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS. SHOWERS WERE OVER THE REST OF THE NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO AREA AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING. JRD ///CORRECTED HEADER///
Special weather statement, Oct 25, 7:34 PM EDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ001-260100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 632 PM EST FRI OCT 25 1991 AT 625 PM EST /725 PM EDT... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM CHURUBUSCO TO AUBURN INDIANA TO EDGERTON OHIO SOUTH TO MARION AND BERNE INDIANA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THEY CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE ADVISED TO SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THEY PASS. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS DUE TO PONDING OF WATER RON ROADWAYS AND TO DECREASED VISIBILITIES. BY 8 PM EST/9 PM EDT... THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WILL BE EAST OF FORT WAYNE AND AUBURN IN INDIANA AND BETWEEN EDGERTON AND PAYNE IN NORTHWEST OHIO. JRD
Special weather statement, Oct 25, 10:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ001-260330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 925 PM EST FRI OCT 25 1991 AT 920 PM EST /1020 PM EDT... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM DECATUR TO BERNE AND PORTLAND IN NORTHEAST INDIANA OR FROM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST TO 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THEY CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THEY WILL MOVE INTO OHIO BY 10 PM EST. PERSONS IN THIS AREA ARE ADVISED TO SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THEY PASS. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUfTION IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS DUE TO PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND TO DECREASED VISIBILITIES. SHOWERS WERE OVER THE REST OF THE AREA. SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MODNIGHT EST OR 1 AM EDT. JRD
Nearby
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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.