Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jan 1, 1993, 8:35 AM EST for Lucas County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 1, 1993, 8:35 AM EST (13:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 1, 1993, 12:30 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lucas County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 103 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 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 KTOL 011334 FFWTOL OHC095-011730- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLEDO OH 835 AM EST FRI JAN 1 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOLEDO HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHWEST OHIO ...SOUTHERN LUCAS COUNTY AT 820 AM THE TOLEDO FIRE DEPARTMENT DISPATCHERS OFFICE REPORTED FLOODING ALONG THE SWAN CREEK...A TRIBUTARY OF THE MAUMEE RIVER. SOME EFFECTED RESIDENTS HAD BASEMENTS FLOODED WITH FOUR FEET OF WATER. ALSO...SOME ROADS NEAR SWAN CREEK FROM AIRPORT HIGHWAY AT REYNOLDS ROAD...EAST INTO TOLEDO TO WESTERN AVENUE AT HILLSDALE AVENUE WERE CLOSED. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT NOTED THAT THE FLOOD WATERS HAVE RISEN STEADILY OVERNIGHT. FLOOD WATERS ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN TO SLOWLY RECEDE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. 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. VEHIxCLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MURPHY
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, Jan 1, 7:29 AM EST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
OHZ004-PAZ003-011500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 729 AM EST FRI JAN 1 1993 DRIVING CONDITIONS WERE REPORTED TO BE LESS THAN IDEAL EARLY THIS MORNING OVER MUCH OF NORTHEAST OHIO AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. ROADWAYS WERE COVERED BY A THIN SHEET OF ICE PRODUCED BY FREEZING DRIZZLE AND LIGHT SNOW OVERNIGHT. THE ICE WILL BE PERSISTENT. TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO UPPER 20S THROUGHOUT THIS NEW YEARS DAY WILL PREVENT THE ICE FROM MELTING QUICKLY. WINDY CONDITIONS WILL ALSO HINDER TRAVEL TODAY. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING TODAY. BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES WHICH ARE EXTREMELY SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE FORMATION OF ICE. THERE WILL A CHANCE OF FLURRIES THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL TODAY BEFORE WARMING TO MORE SEASONAL TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 30S ON SATURDAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES.b KUBINA
Special weather statement, Jan 1, 7:37 AM EST, 58 minutes before
OHZ004-PAZ003-011500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 737 AM EST FRI JAN 1 1993 DRIVING CONDITIONS WERE REPORTED TO BE LESS THAN IDEAL EARLY THIS MORNING OVER MUCH OF NORTHEAST OHIO AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. ROADWAYS WERE COVERED BY A THIN SHEET OF ICE PRODUCED BY FREEZING DRIZZLE AND LIGHT SNOW OVERNIGHT. THE ICE WILL BE PERSISTENT. TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO UPPER 20S THROUGHOUT THIS NEW YEARS DAY WILL PREVENT THE ICE FROM MELTING QUICKLY. WINDY CONDITIONS WILL ALSO HINDER TRAVEL. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING TODAY. BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES WHICH ARE EXTREMELY SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE FORMATION OF ICE. THERE WILL A CHANCE OF FLURRIES THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL TODAY BEFORE WARMING TO MORE SEASONAL TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 30S ON SATURDAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. KUBINA ...CORRECTED TO REMOVE UNNECESSARY TODAY IN 2ND PARAGRAPH...
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.