Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 1992, 8:29 PM EDT for Belmont County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 1992, 8:29 PM EDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1992, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Belmont County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 571 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -226 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 270031 FFWCAK OHC013-270330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 829 PM EDT SUN JUL 26 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO ...BELMONT COUNTY RADAR AT 825 PM SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHERN BELMONT COUNTY NEAR ST CLAIRSVILLE THAT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. RN
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 26, 5:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
OHZ004-007-262210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 507 PM EDT SUN JUL 26 1992 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS OHIO LATE THIS AFTERNOON. AT 455 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM OVER NEW PHILADELPHIA AND NEW COMMERSTOWN TO OVER STEUBENVILLE. THIS INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF TUSCARAWAS..HARRISON AND JEFFERSON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLY WINDS GUST TO 45 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. THE VEAY HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER IN ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING PLACES. ALSO AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING DURING EXCESSIVE RAINS WILL FLOOD IF A STORM PASSES. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORM MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IK
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 5:14 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
OHZ004-007-262210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 507 PM EDT SUN JUL 26 1992 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS OHIO LATE THIS AFTERNOON. AT 455 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM OVER NEW PHILADELPHIA AND NEW COMMERSTOWN TO OVER STEUBENVILLE. THIS INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF TUSCARAWAS..HARRISON AND JEFFERSON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLY WINDS GUST TO 45 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. THE VEAY HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER IN ROADWAYS AND IN LOW LYING PLACES. ALSO AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING DURING EXCESSIVE RAINS WILL FLOOD IF A STORM PASSES. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE STORMS HAS PASSED. IK
Local storm report, Jul 26, 6:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 609 PM EDT SUN JUL 26 1992 TIME EVENT OCCURRED.. 1254PM TYPE OF EVENT.. URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING LOCATION OF EVENT.. MONROE COUNTY HAD WIDESPREAD COUNTY FLOODING INJURIES.. 0 DEATHS.. 0 KINSELLA
Local storm report, Jul 26, 6:11 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 610 PM EDT SUN JUL 26 1992 TIME EVENT OCCURRED.. 1206PM TYPE OF EVENT.. URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING LOCATION OF EVENT.. SOUTHERN NOBLE COUNTY HAD FLOODING INJURIES.. 0 DEATHS.. 0 KINSELLA
Local storm report, Jul 26, 6:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
612 PM EDT SUN JUL 26 1992
TIME EVENT OCCURRED.. 1345PM
TYPE OF EVENT.. URBAN FLOODING
LOCATION OF EVENT.. MACKSBURG IN NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY HAD
STREET FLOODING
INJURIES.. 0
DEATHS.. 0
KINSELLANearby
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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.