Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 6, 1993, 10:43 PM EDT for Ashtabula County, Ohio. It was in force for 77 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 1993, 10:43 PM EDT (02:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1993, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 77 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashtabula County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 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 070245 FFWCLE OHC007-070445- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1043 PM EDT FRI AUG 6 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 12 MIDNIGHT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...ASHTABULA COUNTY AT 1040 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG THE ASHTABULA LAKESHORE NEAR THE CITY OF ASHTABULA. THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN LESS THAN AN HOUR. THE CITY POLICE IN ASHTABULA REPORTED SOME STREET FLOODING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE OUT OF NORTHEASTERN ASHTABULA COUNTY BY ABOUT 1130 PM. 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. KOSARIK
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, Aug 6, 10:23 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
OHZ002-003-021200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1023 PM EDT FRI AUG 6 1993 AT 1020 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER THE LAKESHORE REGION OF ASHTABULA COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED OVER GENEVA ON THE LAKE AND WAS MOVING TOWARD ASHTABULA. THE STORMS ARE MOVING ON AN EASTERLY TRACK AT ABOUT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING... VERY HEAVY RAIN... WIND GUSTS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN ASHTABULA COUNTY. FAI
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 10:26 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
OHZ002-003-021200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1023 PM EDT FRI AUG 6 1993 AT 1020 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER THE LAKESHORE REGION OF ASHTABULA COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED OVER GENEVA ON THE LAKE AND WAS MOVING TOWARD ASHTABULA. THE STORMS ARE MOVING ON AN EASTERLY TRACK AT ABOUT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING... VERY HEAVY RAIN... WIND GUSTS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN ASHTABULA COUNTY. FAI
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 10:34 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
PAZ001-002-070400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 1034 PM EDT FRI AUG 06 1993 AT 1035 PM EDT ERIE RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILESAN HOUR AND WILL ENTER WESTERN ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA SHORTLY BEFORE 11 PM. AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH ERIE COUNTY BETWEEN 11PM AND MIDNIGHT... THEY WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...POSSIBLE WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR AND MAYBE SOME HAIL. SMALL BOAT OPERATORS ON LAKE ERIE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND SEEK SAFE HARBOR WHEN THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. TJP
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 10:42 PM EDT, 1 minute before
PAZ001-002-070400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 1034 PM EDT FRI AUG 06 1993 AT 1035 PM EDT ERIE RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILESAN HOUR AND WILL ENTER WESTERN ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA SHORTLY BEFORE 11 PM. AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH ERIE COUNTY BETWEEN 11PM AND MIDNIGHT... THEY WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...POSSIBLE WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR AND MAYBE SOME HAIL. SMALL BOAT OPERATORS ON LAKE ERIE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND SEEK SAFE HARBOR WHEN THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. TJP
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.