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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 24, 1992Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 1992, 5:33 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 114 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 24, 1992, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 1992, 7:27 PM EDT
In force
114 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Portage County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 253 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1992-07-24Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1992-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 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
885 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAK 242134
FFWCAK
OHC133-250130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
533 PM EDT FRI JUL 24 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...PORTAGE COUNTY
 
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH PORTAGE COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON
DROPPED AS MUCH AS .9 INCHES OF RAIN OVER NORTHERN PORTAGE IN A HALF
HOUR PERIOD. REPORTS OF AS MUCH AS 2.5 INCHES HAD FALLEN OVER PARTS OF
PORTAGE COUNTY SINCE THIS MORNING.
 
SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORT MUCH URBAN FLOODING OCCURRING OVER
NORTHERN PORTAGE THIS AFTERNOON.
 
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
RLB

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 24, 2:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
OHZ004-241940-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
240 PM EDT FRI JUL 24 1992

THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN
OHIO THIS AFTERNOON.

AT 225 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
OVER WAYNE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS THAT WILL CAUSE PONDING
OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. AREAS PRONLE TO FLOODING
DURING EXCESSIVE RAINS WILL FLOOD IF A STORM PASSES.

PERSONS SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS OF RAPIDLY RISING SMALL STREAMS AND BE
PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING OCCURS.

KINSELLA
...ADDED MISSING WORD IN THIRD PARAGRAGH...
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 3:31 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
OHZ002-003-242100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
330 PM EDT FRI JUL 24 1992

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING THROUGH
NORTHEAST OHIO LATE THIS AFTERNOON.

AT 325 PM EDT RADAR WAS SHOWING A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
FROM EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO...ASHTABULA COUNTY THROUGH CLEVELAND TO
20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLEVELAND. SOME OF THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS
WERE OVER THE EASTERN SUBURBS OF CLEVELAND.

PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS IS POSSIBLE IN THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS.

THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL
BE EAST OF CLEVELAND BY 5 PM AND EAST OF PAINESVILLE AROUND 6 PM.

BETWEEN 2 AND 3 PM OVER HALF AN INCH OF RAIN /.57/ FELL AT CLEVELANDS
HOPKINS AIRPORT. WHILE DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS ALMOST 2 INCHES
OF RAIN FELL /1.74/ FELL JUST EAST OF DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND WITH OVER AN
INCH AND A HALF /1.51/ IN MAYFIELD HEIGHTS...AN EASTERN SUBURB OF
CLEVELAND AND OVER AN INCH /1.22/ IN CLEVELAND HEIGHTS.

PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST OHIO SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SOME BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN AND PONDING OF WATER FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON.

KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 4:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
OHZ004-242110-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
410 PM EDT FRI JUL 24 1992

THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN
OHIO THIS AFTERNOON.

AT 405 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
OVER NORTHERN SUMMIT AND PORTAGE COUNTIES. THSES STORM WERE MOVING
EAST AT 25 MPH.

THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS THAT WILL CAUSE PONDING
OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN LOW LYI&NG AREAS. AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING
DURING EXCESSIVE RAINS WILL FLOOD IF A STORM PASSES.

PERSONS SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS OF RAPIDLY RISING SMALL STREAMS AND BE
PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING OCCURS.

KINSELLA
Local storm report, Jul 24, 4:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
416 PM EDT  FRI JUL 24 1992

TIME EVENT OCCURRED.. 330PM

TYPE OF EVENT.. WIND...URBAN FLOODING.

LOCATION OF EVENT.. MANY TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN MILLERSBURG
IN HOLMES COUNTY. STREET FLOODING ALSO REPORTED.

INJURIES.. 0

DEATHS..   0                                              6

 RLB

 {
Local storm report, Jul 24, 4:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
418  PM EDT FRI JUL 24 1992

TIME EVENT OCCURRED.. 315 PM

TYPE OF EVENT.. WIND ...URBAN FLOODING

LOCATION OF EVENT.. JEFFERSON ROAD IN SHREVE...SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
OR TOWN

INJURIES.. 0

DEATHS..   0                                              8

 RLB

 {
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 4:36 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
OHZ002-003-004-242200-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
435 PM EDT FRI JUL 24 1992

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING THROUGH
EASTERN OHIO LATE THIS AFTERNOON.

AT 420 PM EDT RADAR WAS SHOWING A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
FROM EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO...ASHTABULA COUNTY THROUGH THE EAST SIDE
OF CLEVELAND...THROUGH AKRON TO NEAR COLUMBUS. IN NORTHEAST OHIO SOME
OF THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTH OF BURTON IN GEAUGA COUNTY
AND NORTH OF AKRON.

THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL
BE EAST OF CLEVELAND BY 5 PM AND EAST OF PAINESVILLE BY 530 PM AND OUT
OF ASHTABULA COUNTY BY 630 PM.

BETWEEN NOON AND 4 PM AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN FELL AT RUSSELL...
20 MILES EAST OF CLEVELAND IN GEAUGA COUNTY...WITH ALMOST TWO
INCHES IN CLEVLAND HEIGHTS /1.76/ AND OVER AN INCH /1.16/ IN SHAKER
HEIGHTS. ALMOST AN INCH OF RAIN FELL IN STRONGSVILE /.96/ A
SOUTHWEST SUBURB OF CLEVELAND.

PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS WAS REPORTED IN PEPPER
PIKE AND A FEW OTHER COMMUNITIES LATE THIS AFTERNOON.

ANY STANDING WATER WILL BE RECEDING DURING THE EVENING ONCE THE RAIN
STOPS. PEOPLE SHOULD BE CAREFUL OF DRIVING THROUGH STANDING WATER
AS IT COULD BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK.

KIELTYKA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 5:48 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWashington3 hr
Jul 24, 7:04 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEBelmont, Guernsey3 hr
Jul 24, 11:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga54 min
Jul 24, 11:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain39 min
Jul 24, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes, Wayne65 min
Jul 24, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETuscarawas69 min
Jul 24, 3:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECoshocton56 min
Jul 24, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage65 min
Jul 24, 4:54 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEPortage27 min
Jul 24, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning62 min

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.