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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 1, 1992Columbiana County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 1992, 7:18 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1992, 7:18 PM EDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1992, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Columbiana County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 70 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1992-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1992-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1306 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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, Jul 1, 1:27 PM EDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
OHZ004-007-011815-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
125 PM EDT WED JUL 1  1992

AT 120 PM EDT AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM
WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MASSILLON. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING
VERY SLOWLY EAST AT 5 MPH.

THESE HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND
STANDING WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS. THIS STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE
SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH DOWNTOWN CANTON BEFORE 2 PM.

THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 2:11 PM EDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
OHZ004-007-011900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
210 PM EDT WED JUL 1  1992

A SMALL CUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WAS MOVING
INTO WESTERN WAYNE COUNTY OF NORTHEAST OHIO.

AT 205 PM EDT AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES SOUTHWEST AND 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOOSTER.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL REACH THE
CITY OF WOOSTER AROUND 230 PM.

THE HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND STANDING
WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS. SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE.

PEOPLE IN WAYNE COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THESE
STORMS PASS.
THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 2:53 PM EDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-012030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
255 PM EDT WED JULY 1 1992

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER NORTHWEST OHIO
THIS AFTERNOON.

AT 250 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM PAULDING THROUGH SENECA COUNTIES.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST AROUND 5 MILES
AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS WHICH COULD
CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. STAY AWAY FROM ANY ROAD WHICH MAY BE
COVERED WITH WATER.

BARNES
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:11 PM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
OHZ004-007-012030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
309 PM EDT WED JUL 1  1992

THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING ACROSS WAYNE COUNTY AND HEADED FOR
SUMMIT AND STARK COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON.

AT 305 PM AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS
FROM NEAR MEDINA TO MILLERSBURG. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING NEAR
ORRVILLE IN WAYNE COUNTY. THE CITY OF WOOSTER REPORTED WINDS GUSTS TO
35 MPH AND THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF RAIN BETWEEN 230 AND 300 PM.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS
SUMMIT AND STARK COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO BETWEEN 315 AND 415 THIS
AFTERNOON.

THE HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE :BRIEF FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING
AREAS. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL MAY ALSO OCCUR.
THOMPSON

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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.