Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 1992, 2:49 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1992, 2:49 PM EDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1992, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cuyahoga County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 KCLE 291850 FFWCLE OHC035-292045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 249 PM EDT WED JUL 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY AT 240 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN CUYAHOGA...NORTHERN LORIAN AND ERIE COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS GUSTS TO 40 MPH. POOLING OF WATER CAN BE EXPECTED IN LOW LYING AREAS AND UNDERPASSES ALONG WITH RAPID RISES IN STREAMS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLES THROUGH WATHER. THE DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO GET THROUGH. IF CAUGHT IN RISING WATER ABONDON YOUR VEHICLE IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS STREAMS ON FOOT. THE CURRENT COULD BE STRONG ENOUGH TO CAUSE LOSS OF FOOTING. SJN
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 29, 9:23 AM EDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
OHZALL-291415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 920 AM EDT WED JUL 29 1992 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO THIS MORNING. AT 910 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF GEAUGA COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND PRODUCED PEA SIZED HAIL OVER EXTREME EASTERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY JUST BEFORE 9 AM...AND ALSO AT HUNTSBURG IN EXTREME EASTERN GEAUGA COUNTY AT 915 AM. GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE GOING THROUGH WINDSOR AND ORWELL IN SOUTHWESTERN ASHTABULA COUNTY...AND BLOOMFIELD IN NORTHWEST TRjUMBULL COUNTY AROUND OR SHORTLY AFTER 930 AM. VRCEK
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 10:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
PAZ002-291500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 950 AM EDT WED JUL 29 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 945 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST NORTH OF LINESVILLE TO THE PYMATUNING RESEVOIR AND WESTWARD TO SOUTHERN ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH CRAWFORD COUNTY...THEY WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...POSSIBLE WIND GUSTS TO 50 MILES AN HOUR AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...REMAIN INDOORS AND DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES WHILE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TJP/FPW/RR
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 2:00 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
OHZALL-292100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND AFTERNOON OHIO WEATHER STORY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 200 PM EDT WED JUL 29 1992 WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS DEVELOPED OVER NORTHERN OHIO TODAY. A COLD FRONT PUSHED SOUTH TO THE SHORES OF LAKE ERIE DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS AND CAUSED A LINE OF WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. THE STORMS STRETCHED FROM ASHTABULA TO ERIE COUNTIES AND PRODUCED SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH. THE LINE WILL DROP SOUTH THROUGH THE NORTHERN THIRD OF THE STATE BY 5 PM. THESE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE SOME SMALL HAIL. MEANWHILE...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OHIO HAD PARTLY TO MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES. SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP OVER THESE AREAS BY LATE AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES ROSE INTO THE UPPER 70S AND LOWER 80S WHICH WERE ABOUT 5 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. SKIES WILL BE CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY ACROSS THE NORTH TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH BUT SHOULD DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE MERCURY WILL DROP INTO THE UPPER 50S IN THE NORTHWEST WHILE READINGS HOVER IN THE 60S ELSEWHERE. THE COLD FRONT WILL BECOME STATIONARY ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY THURSDAY. AREAS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ALONG THE FRONT THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND MAY PRODUCE SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN ABOUT THE SAME WITH HIGHS RANGING FROM 75 TO 85 DEGREES. THE LATEST WEATHER MAP SHOWED A COLD FRONT ALONG THE SOUTH SHORES OF LAKES ONTARIO AND ERIE CONTINUING WEST TO SOUTHERN IOWA. HIGH PRESSURE WAS OVER MINNESOTA. THE FRONT WILL DROP INTO SOUTHERN OHIO TONIGHT WHERE IT WILL BECOME STATIONARY ON THURSDAY. THE HIGH WILL DRIFT EAST INTO THXE UPPER GREAT LAKES TONIGHT AND INTO NEW ENGLAND THURSDAY. SJN
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 2:34 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
OHZ004-291930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 232 PM EDT WED JUL 29 1992 A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER NORTHERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 220 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST SOUTH OF TOLEDO EAST TO MEDINA TO WARREN TO OIL CITY PENNSYLVANIA. ALSO THERE WAS A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE AKRON/CANTON AIRPORT. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SOME THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. THESE HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER IN ROADWAYS AND IN LOW LYING PLACES. AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING DURING EXCESSIVE RAINS WILL FLOOD IF A STORM PASSES. | KINSELLA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 9:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 49 min |
| Jul 29, 2:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lorain | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 3:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage | 56 min |
| Jul 29, 3:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Huron | 3 hr |
| Jul 29, 3:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 119 min |
| Jul 29, 3:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 119 min |
| Jul 29, 3:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Medina | 2 hr |
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.