Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 1992, 4:46 AM EDT for Hancock County, Putnam County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1992, 4:46 AM EDT (08:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1992, 8:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, OH, Putnam County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1591 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 844 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOL 170849 FFWTOL OHC063-137-171245- BULLETIN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 446 AM EDT FRI JUL 17 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED AN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST OHIO ...HANCOCK COUNTY...PUTNAM COUNTY AT 445 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS CONTINUING OVER PUTNAM AND HANCOCK COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO. THE PUTNAM AND HANCOCK COUNTY SHERIFF`S OFFICES REPORTED THAT HIGH WATER SIGNS WERE POSTED ON SEVERAL COUNTY AND STATE ROADS. WATER COVERED ROADWAYS WILL LIKELY BECOME MORE NUMEROUS...AND SOME MAY BE CLOSED AS THE RAIN CONTINUES TO POND IN LOW LYING AREAS. THE SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING FOR SENECA AND WYANDOT COUNTIES EXPIRED AT 445 AM. THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF FLOODING IN THESE COUNTIES. A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF OHIO TODAY...SO PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALERT TO POTENTIAL FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. MURPHY
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 17, 4:29 AM EDT, 17 minutes before
OHZALL-181200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR OHIO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 430 AM EDT FRI JUL 17 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS THAT THERE IS A MODERATE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF OHIO TODAY. IN THE NORTHWEST THE CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE LOWER TODAY...BUT SOME MAY STILL OCCUR. KWIATKOWSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 12:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Hancock, Seneca, Wyandot | 4 hr |
| Jul 17, 12:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Putnam | 4 hr |
| Jul 17, 8:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Hancock, Putnam | 5 hr |
| Jul 17, 12:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Seneca | 5 hr |
| Jul 17, 1:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake | 4 hr |
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.