Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Cleveland, OH
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 5:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Washington | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 7:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Belmont, Guernsey | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 11:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 54 min |
| Jul 24, 11:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 39 min |
| Jul 24, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 65 min |
| Jul 24, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Tuscarawas | 69 min |
| Jul 24, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Coshocton | 56 min |
| Jul 24, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 65 min |
| Jul 24, 4:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage | 27 min |
| Jul 24, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 62 min |
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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.