Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 1992, 1:45 PM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1992, 1:45 PM EDT (17:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1992, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 871 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 171745 FFWCLE OHC007-035-055-085-172145- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 145 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...ASHTABULA COUNTY...CUYAHOGA COUNTY...GEAUGA COUNTY...LAKE COUNTY SMALL STREAM AND URBAN TYPE FLOODING WILL BE LIKELY FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON IN THE FLOOD WARNING AREA. SMALL STREAMS WILL EITHER RUN HIGH OR OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. ROADS AND HIGHWAYS WILL LIKELY FLOOD IN LOW LYING AREAS. SEVERAL ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE AFFECTED THE WARNING AREA BETWEEN THURSDAY EVENING AND 145 PM EDT. THE GROUND WAS SATURATED AND ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH AT LEAST 400 PM EDT OVER THE WARNING AREA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1/4 TO 1 INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON. CONSEQUENTLY...ANY FLOODING WILL ONLY GET WORSE. AT 130 PM EDT...STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN THE CITY OF CHARDON IN GEAUGA COUNTY. BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 145 PM EDT RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY RANGED FROM ONE-THIRD TO AROUND 1.50 INCHES. HERE WERE SOME REPORTS... WADE PARK... 1.58 INCHES NORTH ROYALTON... 1.22 PARMA... .61 SHAKER HTS... .36 HOPKINS AIRPORT... 1.44 /ESTIMATED/ BAY VILLAGE... 1.25 /ESTIMATED/ 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. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CRrOSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. KAPELA
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, 4:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Hancock, 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 |
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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.