Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 62, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 1992, 6:15 PM EDT for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1992, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1992, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cuyahoga County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 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 KCLE 272216 FFWCLE OHC035-272315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 615 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY AT 615 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL LORAIN AND SOUTHERN CUYAHOGA COUNTIES. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO LORAIN AND CLEVELAND AT AROUND 630 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. 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. 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
Local storm report, Aug 27, 5:18 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
CLELSRTOL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 520 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992 STORM REPORT FOR AFTERNOON OF THURSDAY AUGUST 27 1992 HANCOCK COUNTY 430 PM ONE-INCH SIZE HAIL 1 MILE EAST OF VANLUE REPORT FROM HANCOCK COUNTY SHERIFF ...................................................................... WAYNDOT COUNTY 500 PM EDT TREES DOWN EAST OF UPPER SANDUSKY ON CO. RD. 134 BETWEEN UPPER SANDUSKY AND NEVADA...REPORT FROM WYANDOT COUNTY SHERIFF MURPHY
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 5:27 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
OHZ004-007-272225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 525 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992 SOME THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING INTO SUMMIT COUNTY THIS LATE AFTERNOON. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM EXTREME SOUTHWEST SUMMIT COUNTY TO EASTERN RICHLAND COUNTY. SOME OF THESE STORMS CONTAINED HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE HAIL AND BRIEF HIGH WINDS. ONE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED WIND TO 60 MPH AS IT PASSED THROUGH ASHLAND EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. BE ON THE ALERT IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DEGAN
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 5:46 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
OHZ004-272300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 545 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO EARLY THIS EVENING. AT 540 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM NEAR EAST LIVERPOOL IN COLUMBIANA COUNTY TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF NEWTON FALLS IN TRUMBULL COUNTY. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED BACK FROM SOUTH OF CLEVELAND TO COLUMBUS. THESE STORMS WERE GENERALLY MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS OF AROUND 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. APFEL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 56 min |
| Aug 27, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 51 min |
| Aug 27, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 57 min |
| Aug 27, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 68 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.