Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 1992, 6:09 PM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 1992, 6:09 PM EDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1992, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Portage County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 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 302211 FFWCAK OHC133-151-153-169-310115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 609 PM EDT THU JUL 30 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...S... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...PORTAGE COUNTY...STARK COUNTY...SUMMIT COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY TORRENTIAL RAINS HAVE PRODUCED URBAN STREET AND SMALL STREAM FLOODS THROUGHOUT THE WARNING AREA. UP TO AN INCH OF RAIN IN 10 MINUTES WAS REPORTED IN PORTAGE COUNTY 6PM. 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.
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 30, 4:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
OHZALL-302130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 421 PM EDT THU JUL 30 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR ALL BUT THE NORTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST PARTS OF OHIO... ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF OHIO FOR TONIGHT AND FRIDAY... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR RICHLAND COUNTY IN NORTHCENTRAL OHIO. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIT ACROSS MUCH OF OHIO UNTIL 1000 PM EDT. ONLY THE NORTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST CORNERS OF THE STATE HAVE BEEN EXCLUDED FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR ALL OF OHIO FOR TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. RECENT HEAVY RAINS ACROSS OHIO HAVE LEFT THE GROUND SATURATED...WITH MANY RIVERS AND STREAMS RUNNING HIGH. ADDITIONAL RAINS EXPECTED TONIGHT AND FRIDAY WILL RESULT IN QUICK RISING WATER LEVELS. URBAN TYPE FLOODING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE AS RAIN AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES OCCUR IN THE STORMS. AT 420 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS OHIO. THIS ACTIVITY FAVORED THE SOUTHCENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL PARTS OF THE STATE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS OR APPROACH SMALL STREAMS THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD. MANY FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR WHEN A PERSON ATTEMPTS TO DRIVE THEIR VEHICLE THROUGH A FLOODED ROAD. KAPELA
Local storm report, Jul 30, 5:17 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
507 PM EDT THU JUL 30 1992
TIME EVENT OCCURRED.. 5 PM
TYPE OF EVENT.. ONE INCH HAIL, TREES DOWN...WATER IN STREETS.
LOCATION OF EVENT.. WESTERN WAYNE CjOUNTY ABOUT 50 MILES WEST OF CANTON.
INJURIES.. NONE REPORTED
DEATHS.. NONE REPORTED.
NIBERT
{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, 1:39 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, 6:39 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.