Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Nov 17, 1993, 5:36 PM EST for Monroe County, Noble County, Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 17, 1993, 5:36 PM EST (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 17, 1993, 7:45 PM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Monroe County, OH, Noble County, OH, Washington County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 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 172237 FFWCAK OHC111-121-167-180045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH 536 PM EST WED NOV 17 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...MONROE COUNTY...NOBLE COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY RADAR AT 630 PM INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MORGAN COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH AND WILL REACH THE OHIO RIVER ABOUT 8 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING AS MUCH AS AN INCH OF RAIN IN 30 MINUTES. THE GROUND IN THE WARNING AREA IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM RECENT RAINS AND THIS ADDITIONAL RAIN COULD CAUSE SOME URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING. 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 RISIN,G WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. RLB
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, Nov 17, 12:22 PM EST, 5 hours 14 minutes before
OHZ039-040-048-171830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 1222 PM EST WED NOV 17 1993 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFRCT FOR MUCH OF EAST-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO UNTIL 5PM EST. RADAR AT 1215 PM INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER COSHOCTON AND TUSCARAWAS COUNTIES BETWEEN COSHOCTON AND NEW PHILADELPHIA MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 50 MPH. THE STORMS SHOULD REACH THE DOVER-NEW PHILADELPHIA AREA AROUND 1230 PM AND SHOULD PASS NEAR WAYNESBURG IN CARROLL COUNTY AROUND 1PM. THE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR PRODUCING BRIEF TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS... WIND GUSTS TO ABOUT 50 MPH AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. THOSE ALONG THEIR PATH SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. RLB
Special weather statement, Nov 17, 12:22 PM EST, 5 hours 14 minutes before
OHZ039-040-048-171830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 1222 PM EST WED NOV 17 1993 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFRCT FOR MUCH OF EAST-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO UNTIL 5PM EST. RADAR AT 1215 PM INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER COSHOCTON AND TUSCARAWAS COUNTIES BETWEEN COSHOCTON AND NEW PHILADELPHIA MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 50 MPH. THE STORMS SHOULD REACH THE DOVER-NEW PHILADELPHIA AREA AROUND 1230 PM AND SHOULD PASS NEAR WAYNESBURG IN CARROLL COUNTY AROUND 1PM. THE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR PRODUCING BRIEF TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS... WIND GUSTS TO ABOUT 50 MPH AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. THOSE ALONG THEIR PATH SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. RLB
Special weather statement, Nov 17, 1:56 PM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
OHZALL-172000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 156 PM EST WED NOV 17 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 500 PM EST... ...FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES THIS AFTERNOON FOR ONLY THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF OHIO... THE TORNADO WATCH IS ONLY IN EFFECT FOR THAT PART OF OHIO SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM CANTON TO ZANESVILLE TO ATHENS. THUNDERSTORMS CAN QUICKLY DEVELOP IN THIS WATCH AREA AND GENERATE A TORNADO. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. AT 150 PM EST... CLEVELAND DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FOUND EAST OF A LINE FROM CLEVELAND TO ZANESVILLE TO PORTSMOUTH. BY 300 PM THE BACK EDGE OF THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE FROM AKRON TO ATHENS. CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OF RAINFALL TOTALS SINCE IT BEGAN LAST NIGHT INDICATED THAT THE AXIS OF HEAVIEST RAINS EXTENDED FROM COLUMBUS UP TO YOUNGSTOWN. GENERALLY 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THAT AREA UP TO 150 PM...WITH A MAXIMUM OF 2 INCHES IN HOLMES COUNTY. COOP OBSERVERS ACROSS THE NORTHERN LAKESHORE COUNTIES ALSO REPORTED SOME HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS. VERMILION CAME IN WITH 1.5 INCHES UP TO 1000. KAPELA
Special weather statement, Nov 17, 1:56 PM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
OHZALL-172000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 156 PM EST WED NOV 17 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 500 PM EST... ...FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES THIS AFTERNOON FOR ONLY THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF OHIO... THE TORNADO WATCH IS ONLY IN EFFECT FOR THAT PART OF OHIO SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM CANTON TO ZANESVILLE TO ATHENS. THUNDERSTORMS CAN QUICKLY DEVELOP IN THIS WATCH AREA AND GENERATE A TORNADO. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. AT 150 PM EST... CLEVELAND DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FOUND EAST OF A LINE FROM CLEVELAND TO ZANESVILLE TO PORTSMOUTH. BY 300 PM THE BACK EDGE OF THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE FROM AKRON TO ATHENS. CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OF RAINFALL TOTALS SINCE IT BEGAN LAST NIGHT INDICATED THAT THE AXIS OF HEAVIEST RAINS EXTENDED FROM COLUMBUS UP TO YOUNGSTOWN. GENERALLY 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THAT AREA UP TO 150 PM...WITH A MAXIMUM OF 2 INCHES IN HOLMES COUNTY. COOP OBSERVERS ACROSS THE NORTHERN LAKESHORE COUNTIES ALSO REPORTED SOME HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS. VERMILION CAME IN WITH 1.5 INCHES UP TO 1000. KAPELA
Special weather statement, Nov 17, 2:49 PM EST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
OHZALL-172045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 249 PM EST WED NOV 17 1993 THE TORNADO WATCH PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR PARTS OF EASTERN OHIO HAS BEEN ENTIRELY CANCELLED. THERE IS NO LONGER ANY THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER OR TORNADOS OVER OHIO. THE REMAINING FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHEAST OHIO WILL BE CANCELLED WITH THE NEXT ROUTINE FORECAST PACKAGE AT 330 PM. FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES... THERE IS NO LONGER ANY THREAT OF URBAN AND/OR SMALL STREAM FLOODING ACROSS OHIO. THE MAJORITY OF THE MAINSTEM RIVERS IN OHIO WERE RUNNING NEAR BANKFULL DUE TO THE RAINS THE PAST WEEKEND AND TODAY. CLEVELAND DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR AT 245 PM SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE FAR EASTERN TIER OF OHIO COUNTIES NEAR THE WEST VIRGINIA AND PENNSYLVANIA BORDERS. THIS PRECIPITATION SHOULD MOVE EAST OUT OF OHIO BY 330 PM. KAPELA
Special weather statement, Nov 17, 2:50 PM EST, 2 hours 46 minutes before
OHZALL-172045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 249 PM EST WED NOV 17 1993 THE TORNADO WATCH PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR PARTS OF EASTERN OHIO HAS BEEN ENTIRELY CANCELLED. THERE IS NO LONGER ANY THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER OR TORNADOS OVER OHIO. THE REMAINING FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHEAST OHIO WILL BE CANCELLED WITH THE NEXT ROUTINE FORECAST PACKAGE AT 330 PM. FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES... THERE IS NO LONGER ANY THREAT OF URBAN AND/OR SMALL STREAM FLOODING ACROSS OHIO. THE MAJORITY OF THE MAINSTEM RIVERS IN OHIO WERE RUNNING NEAR BANKFULL DUE TO THE RAINS THE PAST WEEKEND AND TODAY. CLEVELAND DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR AT 245 PM SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVE R THE FAR EASTERN TIER OF OHIO COUNTIES NEAR THE WEST VIRGINIA AND PENNSYLVANIA BORDERS. THIS PRECIPITATION SHOULD MOVE EAST OUT OF OHIO BY 330 PM. KAPELA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 9:51 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake | 3 hr |
| Nov 17, 9:51 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina | 3 hr |
| Nov 17, 12:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Monroe, Washington | 65 min |
| Nov 17, 1:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Harrison, Jefferson | 66 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.