Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 86, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Nov 12, 1992, 6:24 PM EST for Cuyahoga County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 12, 1992, 6:24 PM EST (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 1992, 9:30 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cuyahoga County, OH, Medina County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 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 122319 FFWCLE OHC035-103-130230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 624 PM EST THU NOV 12 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...CUYAHOGA COUNTY...MEDINA COUNTY LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUND HAS CAUSED MANY SMALL STREAMS TO RISE TO AND OVER THEIR BANKS OVER THE AFFECTED COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL...SOME OF IT HEAVY WILL ONLY COMPOUND THE PROBLEM AND MAKE FLOODING CONDITIONS WORSE. THE ROCKY RIVER IN MEDINA WAS ALREADY OVERFLOWING ITS BANKS OVER LOW LYING AREAS. RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW MORE SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS OVER CENTRAL OHIO. NORTH CENTRAL OHIO CAN EXPECT THESE SHOWERS TIL ABOUT 9 PM EST. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH F*LOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. VRCEK
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, Nov 12, 3:24 PM EST, 3 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND AFTERNOON OHIO WEATHER STORY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 325 PM EST THU NOV 12 1992 A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR ALL OF OHIO. A STRONG COLD FRONT WAS MOVING TOWARD OHIO LATE THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS GUSTED IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH OVER PARTS OF INDIANA BEHIND THE FRONT AS IT PASSED THROUGH THAT AREA. VERY STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS OHIO AS WELL AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE STATE THIS EVENING. A LARGE AREA OF RAIN SPREAD ACROSS OHIO FROM THE WEST TODAY. IT BEGAN OVER NORTHWEST OHIO EARLY THIS MORNING AND MOVED TO THE EASTERN PART OF THE STATE BY THIS AFTERNOON. RAINFALL AMOUNTS FOR THE 6 HOUR PERIOD ENDING AT 1 PM RANGED FROM LESS THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH IN EXTREME EASTERN OHIO TO JUST OVER AN INCH IN THE DAYTON AREA /1.04/. THE AIR BEHIND THE FRONT WAS COLDER AND THE RAIN WILL BE REPLACED BY FLURRIES ON FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON WERE IN THE UPPER 50S TO LOWER 60S. HIGHS ON FRIDAY WILL ONLY BE IN THE 30S. IT WAS RATHER BREEZY ACROSS OHIO THIS AFTERNOON WITH SOUTHERLY WINDS BLOWING AT 20 TO 25 MPH AND GUSTING AT TIMES TO OVER 30 MPH. RAIN WILL END THIS EVENING WITH CLOUDY SKIES. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF FLURRIES TOWARD MORNING. LOWS WILL BE IN THE LOW TO MID 30S. FRIDAY WILL BE MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED FLURRIES. HIGHS WILL BE IN THE UPPER 30S TO LOWER 40S. FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY WILL BE MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED FLURRIES OVER ALL BUT NORTHEAST OHIO. THERE OCCASIONAL FLURRIES AND POSSIBLE SQUALLS CAN BE EXPECTED. LOWS WILL BE IN THE 20S AND HIGHS SATURDAY IN THE 30S. LATE THIS AFTERNOON LOW PRESSURE WAS OVER LOWER MICHIGAN WITH A WARM FRONT EAST AND A COLD FRONT TO LOUISIANA. HIGH PRESSURE WAS OVER THE ROCKIES. THE COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP THROUGH OHIO TONIGHT AND BE ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST BY FRIDAY MORNING. THE HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE TO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BY SATURDAY MORNING.
Special weather statement, Nov 12, 4:28 PM EST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
OHZ001-002-011-130300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 428 PM EST THU NOV 12 1992 A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR NORTHWEST OHIO. A 425 PM EST A VERY STRONG COLD FRONT WAS BETWEEN FORT WAYNE INDIANA AND THE TOLEDO EXPRESS AIRPORT. IT PRODUCED WIND GUST OF 53 MPH AT THE FORT WAYNE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT BAER FIELD. ALSO A 42 MPH GUST OCCURRED IN THE CITY OF BRYAN IN WILLIAMS COUNTY. THESE WINDS WILL BLOW AROUND LIGHT OBJECTS LIKE GARBAGE CANS... LAWN ORNAMENTS...AND PATIO FURNITURE. PEOPLE DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES AND THOSE WORKING OUTDOORS SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS. DO NOT GO UNDERNEATH TREES OR POWER LINES. BARNES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 6:10 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wayne | 3 hr |
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.