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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 30, 1992Portage County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 1992, 1:44 AM EDT for Portage County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 106 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 30, 1992, 1:44 AM EDT (05:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 1992, 3:30 AM EDT
In force
106 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Portage County, OH, Summit County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1992-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1992-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCAK 300545
FFWCAK
OHC133-153-300845-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
144 AM EDT THU JUL 30 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...S...
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...PORTAGE COUNTY...SUMMIT COUNTY
 
AT 140 AM EDT AKRON CANTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH
VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO NORTHERN SUMMIT AND PORTAGE COUNTIES OF
NORTHEAST OHIO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED URBAN AND SMALL STREAM
FLOODING IN PARTS OF LORAIN AND CUYAHOGA COUNTIES AS THEY MOVED
THROUGH EARLIER THIS MORNING.
 
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGN6IZE
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.
THOMPSON

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 55 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 1:01 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain119 min
Jul 30, 1:39 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEGeauga103 min
Jul 30, 3:02 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain3 hr
Jul 30, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes, Wayne69 min
Jul 30, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit56 min
Jul 30, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Wayne69 min
Jul 30, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage60 min
Jul 30, 6:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark, Summit, Wayne3 hr
Jul 30, 6:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEPortage3 hr
Jul 30, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark51 min
Jul 30, 7:02 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEPortage58 min
Jul 30, 7:26 PM EDTTornado WarningCLETrumbull64 min
Jul 30, 7:35 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEMahoning55 min
Jul 30, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEColumbiana64 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.