Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jan 13, 1993, 10:44 AM EST for Crawford County, Venango County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 1993, 10:44 AM EST (15:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 1993, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, PA, Venango County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 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 KERI 131601 FFWERI PAC039-121-131845- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING FOR STREAMS AND CREEKS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA 1044 AM EST WED JAN 13 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ERIE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR STREAMS AND CREEKS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ...CRAWFORD AND VENANGO COUNTIES... HEAVY RAINS OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING IN EASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY HAVE CAUSED STREAMS AND CREEKS TO RISE TO BANKFULL...FURTHER SNOWMELT RUNOFF AND RAINS WILL CAUSE FLOODING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS IN EASTERN CRAWFORD AND NORTHERN VENANGO COUNTIES. 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. LARGER STREAMS AND RIVERS IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW FLOODSTAGE.
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 13, 8:26 AM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
OHZ002-003-131500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 825 AM EST WED JAN 13 1993 THE RAIN WILL MOVE OUT OF NORTHEAST OHIO BY 11 AM. AT 810 AM RADAR SHOWED THE BACK EDGE OF THE RAIN FROM DETROIT TO CLEVELAND TO AKRON-CANTON TO WHEELING...WEST VIRGINIA. SOME OF THE HEAVIER RAIN WAS EAST OF CLEVELAND...NEAR AND NORTH OF YOUNGSTOWN. THE RAIN ENDED AT HOPKINS AIRPORT AROUND 8 AM AND WILL END ON THE EAST SIDE BY 9 AM AND IN PAINESVILLE AROUND 930 AM. RAINFALL AMOUNTS DURING THE LAST 24 HOURS ENDING AT 7 AM HAVE BEEN AN INCH OR LESS ACROSS THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES HAVE REPORTED NO FLOODING SO FAR...HOWEVER...PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND IN FIELDS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE MORNING AND MOTORISTS WILL HAVE TO USE CAUTION. A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS OHIO THIS MORNING AND USHER IN COLDER AIR. ROADS THAT DO NOT DRY UP IN THE MEANTIME MAY FREEZE... MOTORISTS AND PEDESTRIANS WILDL HAVE TO USE CAUTION. KIELTYKA
Special weather statement, Jan 13, 8:40 AM EST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
OHZ004-PAZ003-131630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 837 AM EST WED JAN 13 1993 CONTINUED RAIN...AND OCCASIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WERE CAUSING MINOR STREET AND ROADWAY FLOODING ACROSS NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA EARLY THIS MORNING. AT 800 AM WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING A BAND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL ...WITH IMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS...MOVING THROUGH THE REGION. THIS 50 MILE WIDE BAND EXTENDED SOUTHWESTWARD FROM ERIE...PENNSYLVANIA TO PARKERSBURG ...WEST VIRGINIA. THE BULK OF THE HEAVY PRECIPITATION WAS OVER NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. THESE HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CAUSE SMALL STREAMS TO OVERFLOW...PONDING OF WATER UNDER OVERPASSES AND ON ROADWAYS RESULTING IN DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS. COMMUTERS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELLING THIS MORNING. CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO IMPROVE AS THE BULK OF THE HEAVIER PRECIPITATION MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST OF THE REGION BY 11 AM. NICK
Special weather statement, Jan 13, 8:45 AM EST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
OHZ004-PAZ003-131630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 845 AM EST WED JAN 13 1993 CONTINUED RAIN...AND OCCASIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WERE CAUSING MINOR STREET AND ROADWAY FLOODING ACROSS NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA EARLY THIS MORNING. AT 800 AM WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING A BAND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL ...WITH IMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS...MOVING THROUGH THE REGION. THIS 50 MILE WIDE BAND EXTENDED SOUTHWESTWARD FROM ERIE...PENNSYLVANIA TO PARKERSBURG ...WEST VIRGINIA. THE BULK OF THE HEAVY PRECIPITATION WAS OVER NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. THESE HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CAUSE SMALL STREAMS TO OVERFLOW...PONDING OF WATER UNDER OVERPASSES AND ON ROADWAYS RESULTING IN DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS. COMMUTERS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELLING THIS MORNING. CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO IMPROVE AS THE BULK OF THE HEAVIER PRECIPITATION MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST OF THE REGION BY 11 AM. NICK CORRECTED TO INSERT SEPARATION BETWEEN LAST TWO PARAGRAPHS
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.