Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 1992, 6:14 PM EDT for Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 1992, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1992, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lorain County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 855 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 262215 FFWCLE OHC093-270015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 614 PM EDT WED AUG 26 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...LORAIN COUNTY AT 610 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF LORAIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST AND HAVE PRODUCED SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. ONE INCH OF RAIN FELL IN A HALF HOUR PERIOD JUST SOUTHEAST OF VERMILLION. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO ELYRIA AROUND 630. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATXER 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. SJN
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 26, 3:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-272100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 340 PM EDT WED AUG 26 1992 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 335 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING THROUGHOUT NORTHWEST OHIO. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS OVER CENTRAL WOOD COUNTY...JUST SOUTH OF BOWLING GREEN. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS IN EASTERN DEFIANCE COUNTY AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN HENRY COUNTY BY 4 PM. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND COULD CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTDOORS SHOULD MOVE INSIDE IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR PONDING ON HIGHWAYS AS POOR VISIBILITIES WHEN TRAVELING THROUGH HEAVY DOWNPOURS. HUGHES
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 6:01 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
OHZ002-262300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 600 PM EDT WED AUG 26 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING ACROSS THE CENTRAL LAKESHORE... AT 600 PM CLEVELAND WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SMALL CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CENTRAL LAKESHORE REGION. THE STORMS WERE ALONG THE LAKESHORE FROM SANDUSKY TO LORAIN. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WESTERN LAKE ERIE...WESTERN OHIO...AND SOUTHERN MICHIGAN. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. AT 550 PM THESE STORMS PRODUCED A WIND GUST TO 35 MILES AN HOUR AT THE LORAIN LIGHTHOUSE. GIVEN THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS...PONDING OF WATER IN LOW SPOTS WILL BE COMMON. REMEMBER NEVER TO DIVE YOUR CAR ACROSS A ROADWAY WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. AUTOMOBILES CAN QUICKLY BECOME PARALYZED IN DEEP WATER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ANY FUTURE STABTEMENTS REGARDING THESE THUNDERSTORMS. FENNER
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.