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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 8, 1992Stark County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 1992, 7:58 PM EDT for Stark County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 1992, 7:58 PM EDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 1992, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Stark County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 12:00Z on 1992-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 262 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 1992-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 243 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
262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
243 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAK 082358
FFWCAK
OHC151-100200-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
758 PM EDT SAT AUG 8 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS EXTENDED THE URBAN AND SMALL
STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...S...

IN NORTHEAST OHIO

   ...STARK COUNTY

AT 750 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WEST OF MASSILLON
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL DROP ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN ON
STARK COUNTY AS IT MOVES THROUGH. NEARLY AN INCH OF RAIN FELL OVER MUCH
OF STARK COUNTY BETWEEN 630 AND 730 PM THIS EVENING.
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.
THOMPSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit67 min
Aug 8, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula47 min
Aug 8, 6:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEPortage, Stark, Summit115 min
Aug 8, 6:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEWayne115 min
Aug 8, 6:10 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEMahoning, Trumbull50 min
Aug 8, 7:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull68 min
Aug 8, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Summit65 min
Aug 8, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMahoning63 min
Aug 8, 7:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEColumbiana63 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.