Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 1992, 7:27 PM EDT for Ottawa County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 1992, 7:27 PM EDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1992, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ottawa County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1232 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 KTOL 152331 FFWTOL OHC123-160130- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 727 PM EDT SAT AUG 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ...OTTAWA COUNTY AT 715 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS OVER OTTAWA COUNTY. AT 710 PM THE OTTAWA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED THAT SOME ROADS WERE COVERED WITH WATER ALSO...THEY REPORTED THAT THE STORM DRAINAGE SYSTEMS HAVE OVERFLOWED AND WATER WAS BACKING UP CAUSING RESIDENTIAL FLOODING. THE FLOODING WAS OCCURRING NEAR MARBLEHEAD...10 MILES NORTHEAST OF PORT CLINTON IN EASTERN OTTAWA COUNTY. 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. BARNES
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 15, 2:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
OHZ001-002-151900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 225 PM EDT SAT AUG 15 1992 SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 215 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO WITH THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM OVER SANDUSKY IN ERIE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY NORTH AT AROUND 10 MPH. SOME O\F THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN WHICH COULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. DRIVERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON RAODWAYS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPORTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 3:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
PAZ001-002-152200 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 312 PM EDT SAT AUG 15 1992 ...MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS ARE FALLING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... ERIE WEATHER RADAR AND RAINFALL REPORTS INDICATE HEAVY RAINS HAVE OCCURRED IN PARTS OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY PRODUCE PONDING ON ROADWAYS...MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. SOME HEAVY RAIN AT TIMES IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS ...SO REMAIN ON THE ALERT FOR HIGH WATER. SANDSTROM
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 4:26 PM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
OHC123-152200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 426 PM EDT SAT AUG 15 1992 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CONTINUED OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL LAKESHORE COUNTIES OF OHIO FOR MUCH OF THIS AFTERNOON. AT 425 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED PERSISTENT SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER OTTAWA COUNTY. SOME OF THIS RAIN MAY BE HEAVY...WHICH COULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. DRIVERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROAD. EASTERN OTTAWA COUNTY WILL RECEIVE THE MOST RAIN. CITIES LIKELY AFFECTED ARE PORT CLINTON AND MARBLEHEAD...10 MILES NORTHEAST OF PORT CLINTON. THE RAIN WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTH AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. THE RAIN WILL PERSIST IN EASTERN OTTAWA COUNTY THROUGH 600 PM. MURPHY/BARNES
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 5:17 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
OHZ004-007-152300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH
518 PM EDT SAT AUG 15 1992
RAIN...LIGHT TO OCCASIONALLY MODERATE...CONTINUED TO FALL ON
NORTHEAST AND PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL OHIO LATE THIS AFTERNOON.
AT 515 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN
EXTENDING FROM CLEVELAND SOUTH THROUGH THE AKRON CANTON AREA
TO NEAR CAMBRIDGE. THIS RAIN AREA WAS MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
RAINFALL TOTALS OF ONE QUARTER TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH
WERE COMMON SINCE THE RAIN BEGAN EARLY THIS MORNING...FROM
WOOSTER AND AKRON CANTON SOUTH THROUGH DOVER AND MILLERSBURG.
AN EXCEPTION WAS KILLBUCK...IN HOLMES COUNTY...WHERE NEARLY
TWO INCHES HAD BEEN RECORDED SINCE 6 OCLOCK THIS MORNING.
A CHECK WITH SHERIFFS DEPARTMENTS IN EASTERN OHIO INDICATED NO
PROBLEMS WITH FLOODING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. {
HOWEVER...WHERE HEAVIER RAINS HAVE OCCURRED...THE GROUND HAD
BECOME SATURATED. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL THROUGH THE EVENING
WILL BEGIN TO CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN LOW
LYING AREAS.
THE COUNTIES MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO PONDING WATER WILL BE
HOLMES...WAYNE...TUSCARAWAS...STARK AND SUMMIT.
MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STANDING WATER ON ROADWAYS
AND IN LOW SPOTS.
THOMPSONNearby
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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.