Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 106, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Dec 31, 1992, 6:21 AM EST for Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 31, 1992, 6:21 AM EST (11:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 31, 1992, 10:30 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Medina County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 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 311124 FFWCLE OHC043-077-007-035-055-085-093-103-311530- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 621 AM EST THU DEC 31 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ...ERIE COUNTY...HURON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...ASHTABULA COUNTY...CUYAHOGA COUNTY...GEAUGA COUNTY ...LAKE COUNTY...LORAIN COUNTY...MEDINA COUNTY URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING WILL STILL OCCUR IN THE WARNING AREA THROUGH LATE MORNING. EVEN THOUGH THE HEAVY RAINS ENDED DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AND ONLY LIGHT RAIN WILL OCCUR THIS MORNING...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES REPORT THAT MANY STREETS ARE STILL COVERED WITH WATER AND SOME ARE EVEN CLOSED. SOME RIVERS AND SMALL STREAMS ARE ALSO IN FLOOD. THE FLOOD WATERS WILL SLOWLY RECEDE THIS MORNING. IF FLOODING HAS NOT OCCURRED IN YOUR AREA...IT WILL NOT OCCUR TODAY. GENERALLY TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN FELL YESTERDAY AND LAST NIGHT IN THE WARNING AREA. 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. KIELTYKA
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, Dec 31, 4:09 AM EST, 2 hours 12 minutes before
PAZ002>004-311600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 400 AM EST THU DEC 31 1992 ...A FLOOD WATCH FOR STREAMS AND CREEKS CONTINUES TIL 1100 AM TODAY FOR MUCH OF NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... SOUTHERN ERIE...CRAWFORD...WARREN...VENANGO..FOREST...MCKEAN...POTTER... ELK...AND CAMERON. RAIN...SOME MODERATE TO HEAVY IN INTENSITY...CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. RUNOFF FROM THIS RAINFALL AND SNOWMELT WILL RESULT IN CONTINUED RISES IN WATER LEVELS OF AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS. AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS MAY APPROACH BANKFULL LEVELS DURING THE DAY...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING. THE MAIN STEM AND TRIBUTARIES OF THE FRENCH CREEK IN SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY AND CRAWFORD COUNTY...ALONG WITH THE MAIN STEM AND TRIBUTARIES OF THE BROKENSTRAW AND CONEWANGO CREEK IN WARREN COUNTY...ARE PARTICULARLY PRONE TO THE POTENTIAL OF FLOODING TODAY. A PARTICULAR DANGER THIS MORNING IS THE PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS. MOTORISTS SHOULD ALLOW EXTRA TIME FOR TRAVEL THIS MORNING AND DRIVE CAUTIOUSLY SINCE THE STANDING WATER CAN CAUSE YOUR VEHICLE TO HYDROPLANE... AND SKID OUT OF CONTROL. REMEMBER...A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT FLOODING IS A POSSIBILITY...AND NOT A CERTAINTY. BE PREPARED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGHER GROUND IN THE EVENT OF ANY OBSERVED FLOOODING...OR THE ISSUANCE OF A FLOOD WARNING. NEVER TRY TO DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH A FLOODED AREA...SINCE THE DEPTH OF THE WATER MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOU TO PASS SAFELY. NO SIGNIFICANT FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED SO FAR...BUT FLOODING WILL REMAIN A THREAT THROUGHOUT TODAY AS THE RAIN CONTINUES THIS MORNING... AND RUNOFF INTO STREAMS AND CREEKS pTAKES PLACE WELL INTO TONIGHT. SKYWARN OBSERVERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS...PLEASE REPORT ANY SIGNS OF FLOODING. LAMBERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 9:25 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Lorain | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 9:25 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 9:35 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 10:28 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Fulton, Lucas, Ottawa, Wood | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 10:28 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 3 hr |
| Dec 31, 12:31 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake | 6 hr |
| Dec 31, 12:31 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Erie, Huron, Lorain, Medina | 6 hr |
| Dec 31, 1:21 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 5 hr |
| Dec 31, 2:29 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Lucas, Putnam, Wood | 4 hr |
| Dec 31, 2:29 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca | 4 hr |
| Dec 31, 2:29 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 4 hr |
| Dec 31, 5:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 5 hr |
| Dec 31, 6:21 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake | 4 hr |
| Dec 31, 6:21 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 4 hr |
| Dec 31, 10:13 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 6 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.