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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 17, 1992Seneca County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 1992, 12:11 PM EDT for Seneca County, Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 17, 1992, 12:11 PM EDT (16:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 1992, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Seneca County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1992-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 32 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1992-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTOL 171612
FFWTOL
OHC147-172115-
 
BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH
1211 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...SENECA COUNTY
 
AT 1210 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF WIDESPREAD SHOWERS OVER
MUCH OF SENECA COUNTY. THE SENECA COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED
SWELLING STREAMS IN LOWLAND AREAS...AND RISING WATER ALONG ROUTE 53...
FIVE MILES SOUTH OF TIFFIN. ADDITIONAL FLOODING WILL LIKELY OCCUR AS
THE RAIN CONTINUES OVER THIS 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.
 
MWD

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

Local storm report, Jul 17, 9:58 AM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
955 AM EDT FRI JUL 17 1992

STORM REPORTS FROM THE EVENING OF SUNDAY JULY 12TH...

AROUND 930     MEDINA COUNTY...WEAK TORNADO (F0) TOUCHED DOWN SEVERAL
    PM EDT     TIMES ON A WEST TO EAST PATH FROM SOUTH OF BRUNSWICK
               ON FOSKETT RD TO STONEY HILL RD /SOUTH OF WEYMOUTH RD/
               TO RIDGE RD /SOUTHERN HINKLEY/ TO KELLOGG RD INTO THE
               HINKLEY RESERVATION. NO DEATHS OR INJURIES. NUMEROUS
               LARGE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWNED. SOME MINOR PERSONAL
               PROPERTY DAMAGE. DAMAGE PATH LENGTH WAS ABOUT 5 MILES
               LONG AND 100 TO 200 YDS WIDE. DAMAGE PATTERN APPEARED
     ^          TO BE AN EXTENSION OF TORNADO WHICH EARLIER HIT WHITNEY
               RD IN LAGRANGE /LORAIN COUNTY/ AND WESTERN MEDINA COUNTY
               ALONG NEFF RD.
KAPELA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 12:50 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHancock, Seneca, Wyandot4 hr
Jul 17, 12:50 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEPutnam4 hr
Jul 17, 4:46 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHancock, Putnam4 hr
Jul 17, 8:48 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEHancock, Putnam5 hr
Jul 17, 1:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992

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.