Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 74, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 1992, 3:15 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1992, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1992, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashtabula County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 845 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 071922 COR FFWCLE OHC007-072115- URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 315 PM EDT MON SEP 7 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...ASHTABULA COUNTY AT 300 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN ASHTABULA COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF THE LAKE ERIE SHORELINE. THESE STORMS HAVE MOVED LITTLE SINCE ABOUT 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON AND SOME HAVE PRODUCES FAIRLY HEAVY RAINS. THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT IN ASHTABULA COUNTY HAS REPORTED SOME FLOODING OF ROADS IN AUSTINBURG AND JEFFERSON WHICH ARE IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. FLOODING OF ROADS AND STREAMS ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON IN ASHTABULA COUNTY MAINLY OVER THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY NEAR INTERSTATE 90. 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. WCR HEADING IN 1ST PARAGRAPH SHOULD READ URBAN AND SMALL STREAM 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, Sep 7, 1:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
OHZ002-003-071830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 125 PM EDT MON SEP 7 1992 .THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING ACROSS THE EAST LAKESHORE... AT 115 CLEVELAND WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SMALL CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF ASHTABULA COUNTY. THE STORMS HAVE BEEN PARTICULARLY PERSISTENT NEAR INTERSTATE ROUTE 90. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 5 MILES AN HOUR. ASHTABULA COUNTY HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTS THAT THESE THUNDERSTROMS HAVE REDUCED THE VISIBILITY TO NEAR ZERO IN VERY HEAVY RAIN. NO STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED AS OF 125 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO DELIVER VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. PEOPLE LIVING IN THE EAST LAKESHORE REGION...ESPECIALLY THOSE IN ASHTABULA COUNTY SHOULD KEEP ALERT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE STREET FLOODING AND PONDING OF WATER. NEVER CROSS A WATER COVERED ROAD . STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FOR FUTURE STATEMENTS REGARDING THESE THUNDERSTORMS FENNER
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 2:17 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
OHZ002-003-071930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 216 PM EDT MON SEP 7 1992 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WAS AFFECTING THE LAKSHORE REGION... AT 205 CLEVELAND WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW AN AREA OF SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF ASHTABULA COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE DEVELOPING FROM THE SOUTHWEST AND MOVING NORTHEAST ALONG THE LAKESHORE AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. RADAR ALSO SHOWED A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER LAKE ERIE JUST NORTH OF CLEVELAND. THE STORMS HAVE BEEN PARTICULARLY PERSISTENT NEAR INTERSTATE ROUTE 90 IN ASHTABULA COUNTY. SOME OF THE TOWNS THAT HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS ARE...AUSTINBURG...JEFFERSON...KELLOGSVILLE...AND MONROE CENTER. THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT IN JEFFERSON REPORTED THAT SOME SHALLOW WATER HAS ACCUMULATED ON A SECTION OF ROUTE 307 BETWEEN DORSET AND AUSTINBURG. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF ASHTABULA COUNTY. THEY HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO DELIVER VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. PEOPLE LIVING IN THE EAST LAKESHORE REGION...ESPECIALLY THOSE IN ASHTABULA COUNTY SHOULD KEEP ALERT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE STREET FLOODING AND PONDING OF WATER. NEVER CRONSS A WATER COVERED ROAD. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FOR FUTURE STATEMENTS 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.