Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Dec 30, 1992, 9:25 PM EST for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 30, 1992, 9:25 PM EST (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 31, 1992, 12:30 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Lake County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Dec 30, 6:15 PM EST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
OHZ002>004-310045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 614 PM EST MON DEC 30 1992 RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO THIS EVENING. AT 600 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED LIGHT RAIN FALLING OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF OHIO WITH A LARGE AREA OF MODERATE RAIN SHOWERS EXTENDING FROM CLEVELAND TO SANDUSKY BAY TO MANSFIELD TO CLEVELAND. THE RAIN WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. AT 550 PM A WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE REPORTED STREET FLOODING AT THE INTERSECTION OF SMITH ROAD AND BIG CREEK PARKWAY IN MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE GENERALLY RANGED OVER ONE-HALF INCH ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON WITH 1.09 INCHES SINCE MIDNIGHT* AT CLEVELAND-HOPKINS AIRPORT. MOTORISTS DRIVING ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO SHOULD USE CAUTION AND NEVER DRIVE YOUR CAR THROUGH A FLOODED AREA.JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Dec 30, 8:12 PM EST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
OHZ002>004-310115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 812 PM EST MON DEC 30 1992 RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO THIS EVENING. AT 800 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED LIGHT RAIN FALLING OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF OHIO NORTH OF A CANTON...ASHLAND...TOLEDO LINE WITH A LARGE AREA OF MODERATE RAIN SHOWERS EXTENDING OVER CUYAHOGA AND MEDINA COUNTIES. THE RAIN WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE GENERALLY RANGED OVER ONE-HALF INCH ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON WITH OVER ONE AN INCH /1.47/ SINCE MIDNIGHT AT CLEVELAND-HOPKINS AIRPORT.../1.29/ AT TOLEDO AND ALMOST 2 INCHES /1.90/ AT STRYKER IN EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO. MOTORISTS DRIVING ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO SHOULD USE CAUTION AND NEVER DRIVE YOUR CAR THROUGH A FLOODED AREA. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Dec 30, 8:21 PM EST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
OHZ004-007-310320- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 819 PM EST WED DEC 30 1992 RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO TONIGHT. AT 800 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OHIO...NORTH OF A SANDUSKY...AKRON...YOUNGSTOWN LINE. THE RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE ACROSS SUMMIT AND PORTAGE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. THIS RAIN IN ADDITION TO ALL THE RAIN THAT HAS FALLEN MAY CAUSE SOME AREAS TO FLOOD...ESPECIALLY THOSE PRONE TO FLOODING. MOTORISTS DRIVING ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION AND NEVER DRIVE YOUR CAR THROUGH A FLOODED AREA. > KINSELLA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 9:25 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Lorain | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 9:35 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 10:28 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Fulton, Lucas, Ottawa, Wood | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 10:28 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 3 hr |
| Dec 31, 12:31 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake | 6 hr |
| Dec 31, 12:31 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Erie, Huron, Lorain, Medina | 6 hr |
| Dec 31, 1:21 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 5 hr |
| Dec 31, 2:29 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Lucas, Putnam, Wood | 4 hr |
| Dec 31, 2:29 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca | 4 hr |
| Dec 31, 2:29 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 4 hr |
| Dec 31, 5:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 5 hr |
| Dec 31, 6:21 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake | 4 hr |
| Dec 31, 6:21 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina | 4 hr |
| Dec 31, 6:21 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 4 hr |
| Dec 31, 10:13 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 6 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.