Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 1992, 11:35 PM EDT for Stark County, Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1992, 11:35 PM EDT (03:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1992, 2:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Stark County, OH, Wayne County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 570 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAK 040335 FFWCAK OHC151-169-040630- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 1135 PM EDT MON AUG 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...S... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...STARK COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING FOR WAYNE AND STARK COUNTIES. RADAR AT 1130 PM INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS OVER WAYNE COUNTY MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE THAN AN INCH OF RAIN IN A VERY PERIOD OF TIME. RLB
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, Aug 3, 8:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
OHZ002-011-040230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 838 PM EDT MON AUG 3 1992 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. AT 835 CLEVELAND WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM CENTRAL LAKE ERIE EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO FINDLAY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL LAKE ERIE AND IN NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY...ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF MANSFIELD. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. AT FINDLAY OVER AN INCH OF RAIN /1.22/ FELL IN ABOUT AN HOUR. THIS WILL CAUSE SOME PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. REMEMBER NEVER TO TRAVEL ACROSS A ROAD WHEN IT IS COVERED BY WATER. GUSTY WINDS TO 30 MILES AN HOUR ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. FENNER
Local storm report, Aug 3, 9:23 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA
920 PM EDT MON AUG 03 1992
STORM REPORTS FOR MONDAY AUGUST 03, 1992
TIME EDT EVENT
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2005 EDT CRAWFORD COUNTY...FIRE CONTROL REPORTS LARGE TREES DOWNED
ALONG ROUTE 8...5 MILES NORTHWEST OF TITUSVILLE.
END/WSO ERISpecial weather statement, Aug 3, 9:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
OHZ002-011-040330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 951 PM EDT MON AUG 3 1992 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NORTH OF MANSFIELD THIS EVENING. AT 945 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM CENTRAL LAKE ERIE EXTENDING THROUGH CLEVELAND TO NORWALK TO NEAR THE MANSFIELD AREA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR SHELBY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF MANFIELD IN RICHLAND COUNTY. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN ASHLAND COUNTY BETWEEN 9 PM AND 10 PM AND WILL AFFECT THE CITY OF ASHLAND. AT 935 PM THE SHELBY POLICE REPORTED HEAVY RAIN. HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS AND SMAL&L HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS ARE LIKELY. KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 10:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
OHZ002-011-040330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 959 PM EDT MON AUG 3 1992 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NORTH OF MANSFIELD THIS EVENING. AT 945 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM CENTRAL LAKE ERIE EXTENDING THROUGH CLEVELAND TO NORWALK TO NEAR THE MANSFIELD AREA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR SHELBY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF MANFIELD IN RICHLAND COUNTY. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN ASHLAND COUNTY BETWEEN 10 PM AND 11 PM AND WILL AFFECT THE CITY OF ASHLAND. AT 935 PM THE SHELBY POLICE REPORTED HEAVY RAIN. HEAVY RAIN... GU4STY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS ARE LIKELY. KIELTYKA CORRECTED TIMES FIRST SENTENCE...LAST PARAGRAPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 10:42 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
OHZ004-007-040400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 1040 PM EDT MON AUG 3 1992 WEATHER RADAR AT THE AKRON CANTON AIRPORT AT 1035 PM EDT INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN FROM SWOTHWEST RICHLAND COUNTY THROUGH CENTRAL ASHLAND COUNTY INTO CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THE COMBINATION OF HEAVY RAIN AND SLOW MOVEMENT COULD CAUSE HIGHWAY AND STREET FLOODING IN WAYNE COUNTY UNTIL AROUND MIDNIGHT. MARTIN
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 11:01 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
OHZ002-011-040430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1100 PM EDT MON AUG 3 1992 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE OVER THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF OHIO TONIGHT. AT 1055 PM RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN SOUTH OF THE CITY ASHLAND AND EAST OF ASHLAND ON THE ASHLAND AND WAYNE COUNTY LINE. THE THUNDERSTORM SOUTH OF THE CITY OF ASHLAND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD BE OUT OF THE COUNTY BY 1145 xPM EDT. THE ASHLAND POLICE AT 1030 PM REPORTED THAT WATER WAS PONDING ON A FEW ROADS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN HAVE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS IS LIKELY. KIELTYKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 12:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Summit | 60 min |
| Aug 4, 9:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 68 min |
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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.