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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 8, 1992Columbiana County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 1992, 11:21 PM EDT for Columbiana County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 8, 1992, 11:21 PM EDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 1992, 2:10 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Columbiana County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 70 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1269 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 4.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KYNG 090322
FFWYNG
OHC029-090630-
 
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH
1121 PM EDT SAT AUG 8 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN YOUNGSTOWN HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...COLUMBIANA COUNTY
 
AT 1115 PM EDT THE COLUMBIANA COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY WAS
REPORTING 18 INCHES OF STANDING WATER IN ELKTON...WITH THE WATER STILL
RISING. PROPLE WHO LIVE NEAR THE NORTH FORK OF BEAVER CREEK NEAR AND
SOUTH OF ELKTON SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR RISING WATER AND BE READY TO
TAKE ACTION.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOOtDING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
SITES

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 8, 5:50 PM EDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

OHZ004-082300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH
550 PM EDT SAT AUG 8 1992

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH UNTIL 11 PM EDT.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE MAHONING AND SHENANGO VALLEYS.

AT 540 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS RUNNING
FROM SOUTH OF BUFFALO NEW YORK THROUGH ERIE PENNSYLVANIA TO AKRON TO
NEAR DATON. THE STONGEST CELLS WERE OVER ASHTABULA COUNTY AND OVER THE
CITY OF AKRON IN SUMMIT COUNTY. THERE ARE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS
FOR BOTH ASHTABULA AND SUMMIT COUNTIRES UNTIL 630 PM.

A CELL WAS JUST ENTERING EXTREME SOUTHERN TRUMBULL COUNTY FROM PORTAGE
COUNTY NEAR NEWTON FALLS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL
AFFECT THE CITIES OF WARREN AND LIBERTY BY ABOUT 615 PM.

IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS TAKE SHELTER IN THE BASEMENT OR INTERIOR

ROOM. REMEMBER THAT A WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE FOR SEVERE
WEATHER TO OCCUR. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR
UPDATES.

SITES

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 5:57 PM EDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before

OHZALL-082300-

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
555 PM EDT SAT AUG 8 1992

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHEAST QUARTER
OF OHIO UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING.

SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE AKRON-CANTON...LORAIN...
ASHTABULA...CLEVELAND...YOUNGSTOWN...AND STEUBENVILLE.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS WERE IN EFFECT FOR ASHTABULA COUNTY AND
FOR SUMMIT COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF AKRON...UNTIL 630 PM EDT.

AT 550 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ON A
LINE FROM BUFFALO NEW YORK SOUTHWEST INTO NORTHEAST OHIO AND DOWN TO
JUST NORTHEAST OF DAYTON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT
AROUND 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN ASHTABULA
COUNTY...IN SUMMIT COUNTY NEAR AKRON...AND IN NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF
55 MPH...TORRENTIAL RAIN...LARGE HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT THERE IS A POSSIBILITY FOR
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN THE WATCH AREA. IF THREATENING
WEATHER SHOULD APPROACH YOUR LOCATION...SEEK SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A REINFORCED SHELTER OR BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

PARTAIN

Local storm report, Aug 8, 9:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
450 PM EDT SAT AUG 8 1992

TIME    COUNTY             DISCRIPTION

645 PM  SUMMIT  STREET FLOODING KENMORE (WEST AKRON)

615 PM  WAYNE   STREET FLOODING RITTMAN AND STERLING.
                TREE LIMB FELL ON POWER LINE TO HOUSE.

645 PM  PORTAGE  STREET FLOODING IN DEERFIELD.

5 PM    STARK   TREES ON ROAD IN EAST CANTON.

7-9 PM  STARK   NUMEROUS STREETS FLOODED.  PORTAGE AT WALES
                ERIE AT TRAPHAVEN   OAKCREST AT PORTAGE
                WHIPPLE NORTH OF EVERHARD

849 PM  STARK   STREET FLOODING ROUTE 30 MASSILLON TO CANTON.

930 PM   STARK   STREAM IN AVONDALE PARK FLOODED.

NIBERT
CAK

Local storm report, Aug 8, 11:04 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA
1103 PM EDT SAT AUG 08 1992

STORM REPORTS FOR SATURDAY AUGUST 8TH 1992

TIME  EDT    EVENT
.........................................................................
1635  EDT    DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN THE CITY OF ERIE BY
             SKYWARN OBSERVER (5 ENE ERI).

1724  EDT    LARGE TREES AND POWER LINES KNOCKED DOWN IN THE CITY OF ERIE...
             REPORTED BY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND SKYWARN OBSERVER (5 ENE ERI).

1802  EDT    NUMEROUS LARGE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWNED IN THE VICINITY OF
             LINESVILLE AND CONNEAUTVILLE IN CRAWFORD COUNTY...REPORTED BY
             STATE POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT.

1827  EDT    NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN NEAR MEADVILLE IN CENTRAL
             CRAWFORD COUNTY...REPORTED BY AREA POLICE AND SKYWARN OBSERVER.
1905  EDT    FLOODING ALONG ROUTE 19 IN THE TOWN OF LINESVILLE IN
             WESTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY REPORTED BY SKYWARN.

1945  EDT    FLOODING REPORTED IN THE TOWN OF COCHRANTON IN CRAWFORD
             COUNTY.

2015  EDT    STREETS IMPASSABLE DUE TO FLOODING IN THE TOWN OF JAMESTOWN
             SOUTHWEST CRAWFORD COUNTY...ALSO LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN.

2018  EDT    STREET FLOODING IN THE TOWN OF ATLANTIC IN SOUTHERN CRAWFORD
             COUNTY.

2026  EDT    SKYWARN OBSERVER REPORTED A TOTAL OF 4.00" OF RAIN IN A 3.5
             HOUR PERIOD.

LAMBERT/PAONE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 8:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Columbiana	117 min
Aug 9, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Putnam	48 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.