Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 1993, 4:40 AM EDT for Belmont County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 1993, 4:40 AM EDT (08:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1993, 6:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Belmont County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 1842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 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 KCAK 190840 FFWCAK OHC013-191045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 440 AM EDT MON JUL 19 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO ...BELMONT COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE PERSISTED OVER BELMONT COUNTY SINCE 230 THIS MORNING. A RAIN GUAGE IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY REGISTERED BETWEEN ONE AND ONE HALF TO TWO AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAIN SINCE MIDNIGHT. AT 435 THIS MORNING THE BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD BEEN FALLING IN ST. CLARISVILLE SINCE SHORTLY BEFORE 4 AM. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISbING. THOMPSON &
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, Jul 19, 2:38 AM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
OHZ004-007-190730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 238 AM EDT MON JUL 19 1993 THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING THROUGH EASTERN OHIO THIS MORNING. AT 235 AM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN GUERNSEY...SOUTHERN COSHOCTON...AND CENTRAL HOLMES COUNTY OF EAST CENTRAL OHIO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND PRODUCING BRIEF BUT VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO TUSCARAWAS AND BELMONT COUNTIES OF EASTERN OHIO BY 330 THIS MORNING. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:39 AM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
OHZ004-007-190730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 238 AM EDT MON JUL 19 1993 THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING THROUGH EASTERN OHIO THIS MORNING. AT 235 AM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN GUERNSEY...SOUTHERN COSHOCTON...AND CENTRAL HOLMES COUNTY OF EAST CENTRAL OHIO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND PRODUCING BRIEF BUT VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE THUNDERSTOR8MS WILL PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO TUSCARAWAS AND BELMONT COUNTIES OF EASTERN OHIO BY 330 THIS MORNING. THOMPSON
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.