Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 1992, 1:39 AM EDT for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 103 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 1992, 1:39 AM EDT (05:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1992, 3:22 AM EDT
- In force
- 103 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Geauga County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 1052 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 300540 FFWCLE OHC055-300745- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 139 AM EDT THU JUL 30 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...GEAUGA COUNTY URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING WILL OCCUR AS HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING INTO GEAUGA COUNTY FROM THE WEST. AT 130 AM RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVIEST RAIN FROM THE EASTSIDE OF CLEVELAND INTO GEAUGA COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN LORAIN AND CUYAHOGA COUNTIES. WATER WAS AS DEEP AS 4 FEET ON SOME ROADS. SOME BASEMENTS WERE EVEN FLOODED ON THE WESTSIDE OF CLEVELAND. AROUND AN INCH OF RAIN FELL AT CLEVELAND'S HOPKINS AIRPORT BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 115 AM. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. 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 50 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, 1:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain | 119 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.