Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 1992, 11:05 PM EDT for Warren County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 1992, 11:05 PM EDT (03:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1992, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 1083 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCVG 270306
FFWCVG
OHC165-270400-
BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH
1105 PM EDT WED AUG 26 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CINCINNATI HAS ISSUED A
AN URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST OHIO
...WARREN
AT 1058 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW
SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS IN WARREN COUNTY FROM MASON TO LEBANON
OHIO.
POLICE CENTRAL DISPATCH IN WARREN COUNTY REPORT ZOAR ROAD IN
SOUTH LEBANON OHIO HAS HIGH WATER AND IS THREATENING POSSIBLE
CLOSURE TONIGHT.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE GENERAL BEEN OF THE ONE INCH TO TWO
INCH CATEGORY IN WARREN COUNTY OHIO.
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.
SAMWhat 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, 8:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-270200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 840 PM EDT WED AUG 26 1992 ISOLATED VERY HEAVY RAINS NORTHEAST OF CINCINNATI THIS EVENING WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER AND SOME BASEMENT FLOODING. AT 835 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CINCINNATI SHOWED A COUPLE OF SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN WARREN AND NORTHEAST HAMILTON COUNTY OF OHIO. POLICE CENTRAL DISPATCH IN WARREN COUNTY REPORTED NEARLY A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF RAIN IN THE LEBANON OHIO FROM 645 PM EDT UNTIL 815 PM EDT. THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF WARREN COUNTY ...NEAR KINGS ISLAND OHIO...SUGGEST MORE THAN THREE QUATERS OF AN INCH OF RAIN WAS FALLING IN LESS THAN AN HOUR. A SMALL AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE CINCINNATI/KENTUCKY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN BOONE KENTUCKY TO THE EAST-SIDE OF CINCINNATI TOWARD MASON AND MORROW OHIO WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS UNTIL JUST BEFORE 10 PM EDT. IF YOU ARE IN OR TRAVELING INTO THESE AREAS...PLEASE BE ALTERED FOR RAINFALL REDUCING VISBILITIES TO NEAR ZERO...PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS... POSSIBLE BASEMENT FLOODING AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES. SAM
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 9:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-270200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 917 PM EDT WED AUG 26 1992 BRIEF VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE LEAVING THEIR MARK ON PART OF THE GREATER CINCINNATI TRI STATE AREA THIS EVENING. SINCE BETWEEN 830 PM AND 910 PM EDT RAINFALL TOTALED FOUR TENTHS OF AN INCH OF AT THE CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ...WHILE NEARLY AN INCH OF RAIN FELL NEAR MASON OHIO IN WARREN COUNTY OHIO. AS THE HEAVY RAIN AREA LIFTS OUT OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND INTO HAMITON AND WARREN COUNTIES OHIO...PEOPLE FROM CINCINATI TO LEBANON OHIO MAY EXPERIENCE AN ADDITIONAL HALF INCH OR MORE BEFORE 10 PM EDT. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTDOOR DURING THESE SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...STAY CALM...BUT MORE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN STRUDY BUILDING AND DO NOT TRY TO ACROSS AREAS OF HIGH WATER. SAM
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 10:05 PM EDT, 1 hour before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-270330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 1000 PM EDT WED AUG 26 1992 THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL WERE MOVING THROUGH THE CINCIANNATI AREA THIS EVENING. AT 957 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE HAMILTON AND WARREN COUNTUES AREAS FROM CINCINNATI TO LEBANON OHIO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. REPORTS OF RAINFALL OF ONE INCH TO AN INCH AND A HALF IN THIRTY-FIVE MINTUES WITH WIND GUSTS TO ABOUT 45 MILES AN HOUR AND PEA SIZE HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE FROM THE COLERAIN AND MASON OHIO AREAS...ABOUT 10 TO 20 MILES NORTH OF CINCINNATI. THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST WILL SHOW SOME DIMINISHMENT AROUND 1030 PM EDT. PEOPLE IN THE CINCINNATI AREA AND WARREN COUNTY OHIO...SHOULD MOVE INDOORS IN A STRUDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS...A2ND DO NOT TRY TO ACROSS AREAS OF HIGH WATER. SAM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami | 46 min |
| Aug 27, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin | 57 min |
| Aug 27, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Warren | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 4:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Butler | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ashland | 36 min |
| Aug 27, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Crawford | 54 min |
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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.