Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 1992, 1:01 AM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 119 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 1992, 1:01 AM EDT (05:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1992, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Lorain County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 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 300502 FFWCLE OHC035-093-300700- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 101 AM EDT THU JUL 30 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY...LORAIN COUNTY AT 1255 AM RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM ELYRIA IN LORAIN COUNTY...ACROSS CUYAHOGA COUNTY...THE GREATER CLEVELAND AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE CITY OF LORAIN AS OF 1245 AM. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL BE ENDING IN LORAIN COUNTY BY 115 AM AND IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY AROUND 2 AM. EVEN WHEN THE HEAVY RAIN ENDS SMALL STREAM MAY RISE FOR A SHORTTIME BEFORE RECEDING. 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. FMK
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, 7:49 PM EDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
OHZ004-007-300050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 748 PM EDT WED JUL 29 1992 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS OHIO TONIGHT. AT 735 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A 35 MILES WIDE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM LANCASTER NORTHEAST TO ZANESVILLE TO FREEPORT EAST TO ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE FROM OVER GUERNSEY...SOUTHERN HARRISON ...NORTHERN BELMONT AND SOUTHERN JERRISON COUNTIES. ANY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE STATE HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINS...WIND GUST TO 45 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. THE HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE PONDhING OF WATER IN ROADWAYS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. 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 30, 1:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Geauga | 103 min |
| Jul 30, 1:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 106 min |
| Jul 30, 3:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 69 min |
| Jul 30, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 56 min |
| Jul 30, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Wayne | 69 min |
| Jul 30, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 60 min |
| Jul 30, 6:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 6:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 51 min |
| Jul 30, 7:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Portage | 58 min |
| Jul 30, 7:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 64 min |
| Jul 30, 7:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 55 min |
| Jul 30, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Columbiana | 64 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.