Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 1992, 4:53 PM EDT for Hancock County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 1992, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1992, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hancock County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 162102 COR FFWTOL OHC063-170000- BULLETIN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 453 PM EDT THU JUL 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTHWEST OHIO ...HANCOCK COUNTY AT 450 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM FINDLAY IN FULTON COUNTY TO NEAR OTTAWA IN PUTNAM COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH. THE POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN COMBINED WITH THE ALREADY SATURATED SOIL FROM THE RAIN EARLIER THIS WEEK AND THE HIGH WATER LEVELS IN SMALL STREAMS COULD CAUSE SMALL STREAMS AND CITY DRAINAGE SYSTEMS TO OVERFLOW INTO LOW LYING AREAS AND UNDERPASSES. 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. HUGHES $$ CORRECTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING SECOND LINE TO FLOOD WARNING
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 16, 1:48 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-161815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 146 PM EDT THU JUL 16 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON... AT 140 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDSTORMS LOCATED FROM DEFIANCE CITY IN DEFIANCE COUNTY TO CONTINENTAL IN PUTMAN COUNTY. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING CITIES...NAPOLEAN...HOLGATE... AND SHUNK. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...LOOK FOR SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE ...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DIEFENDERFER
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 3:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
OHZ001-161826- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 226 PM EDT THU JUL 16 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON... AT 225 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDSTORMS LOCATED FROM BRAILEY IN SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY TO LEIPSIC IN PUTMAN COUNTY. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING TOWNS IN LUCAS COUNTY... WHITEHOUSE...IN WOOD COUNTY...GRAND RAPIDS...WESTON...NORTH BALTIMORE IN HANCOCK COUNTY...MCCOMB...AND SHAWTOWN. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...LOOK FOR SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINZS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE ...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DIEFENDERFER
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 4:00 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
OHZ001-161908- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 309 PM EDT THU JUL 16 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON... AT 305 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDSTORMS LOCATED FROM PERRYSBURG IN WOOD COUNTY TO NEAR MCCOMB IN HANCOCK COUNTY. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD ENTER OTTAWA...SANDUSKY...AND SENECA COUNTIES AROUND 330 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...LOOK FOR SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE ...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DIEFENDERFER
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 4:16 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
OHZ001-162100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 410 PM EDT THU JUL 16 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON... AT 410 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDSTORMS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTH OF HOLGATE IN HENRY COUNTY TO LIMA IN ALLEN COUNTY. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS ALSO LOCATED ON THE SANDUSKY-SENECA BORDER...8 MILES NORTH OF FOSTORIA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...LOOK FOR SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE ...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MWD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 6:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Coshocton, Holmes | 60 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.