Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 1993, 3:10 PM EDT for Geauga County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1993, 3:10 PM EDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1993, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Geauga County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 446 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 081912 FFWCLE OHC055-082015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 310 PM EDT TUE JUN 8 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...GEAUGA COUNTY AT 305 PM...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM WESTERN GEAUGA COUNTY...SOUTHWEST INTO MEDINA COUNTY. A NWS RAINFALL OBSERVOR IN EASTERN CUYAHOGA COUNTY REPORTED AROUND 1 INCH OF RAIN IN LESS THAN ONE-HALF HOUR BETWEEN 230PM AND 300 PM ALONG WITH SOME MINOR FLOODING. THIS STORM HAD MOVED EAST INTO GEAUGA COUNTY AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN BY 400 PM. SOME SMALL STREAM FLOODING...STREET FLOODING AND FLOODING OF LOWLANDS IS POSSIBLE. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER <TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. GABRIC
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, Jun 8, 1:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
OHZ004-PAZ003-081900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 127 PM EDT TUE JUN 8 1993 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST OHIO AND INTO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AT 125 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SMALL AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS EXTREME NORTHERN TRUMBULL COUNTY IN OHIO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS MOVEMENT WILL TAKE THE STORMS INTO NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA BY 145 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL MAY ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. PERSONS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS IF A STORM APPROACHES. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. MITCHELL
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 1:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PAZ001-002-003-081900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 135 PM EDT TUE JUN 08 1993 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 130 THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR WATERFORD IN ERIE COUNTY SOUTHWEST TO CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS AND MEADVILLE IN CRAWFORD COUNTY...THEN WESTWARD TO THE SOUTHERN TIP OF LAKE PYMATUNING. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AT SHERMANVILLE WEST OF CONNEAUT. OTHERWISE HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING HAVE BEEN OCURRING. THIS LINE IS PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STREACHING FROM WESTERN NEW YORK THRU NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INTO NORTHEAST OHIO. PRECIPITATION HAS BEEN MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PARRISH/MILLER
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 1:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
PAZ001-002-003-081900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 135 PM EDT TUE JUN 08 1993 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA... AT 130 THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR WATERFORD IN ERIE COUNTY SOUTHWEST TO CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS AND MEADVILLE IN CRAWFORD COUNTY...THEN WESTWARD TO THE SOUTHERN TIP OF LAKE PYMATUNING. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AT SHERMANVILLE WEST OF CONNEAUT. OTHERWISE HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING HAVE BEEN OCURRING. THIS LINE IS PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STREACHING FROM WESTERN NEW YORK THRU NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INTO NORTHEAST OHIO. PRECIPITATION HAS BEEN MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PARRISH/MILLER
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:33 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
OHZ002-003-082000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 233 PM EDT TUE JUN 8 1993 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD REDEVELOPED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHERN OHIO. AT 235 PM...RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST EAST OF CLEVELAND...SOUTHWEST THROUGH MEDINA COUNTY INTO WAYNE COUNTY. OTHER STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED ACROSS CUYAHOGA COUNTY. A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE MEDINA/WAYNE COUNTY LINE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. TORRENTIAL RAIN WAS REPORTED IN NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY WHICH PRODUCED SOME STREET FLOODING AND FLOODED YARDS. THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. AREAS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN SHOULD BE ANTICIPATED THAT MAY PRODUCE SOME SMALL STREAM FLOODING AND STREET FLOODING. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GABRIC
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:41 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
OHZ002-003-082000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 233 PM EDT TUE JUN 8 1993 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD REDEVELOPED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHERN OHIO. AT 235 PM...RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST EAST OF CLEVELAND...SOUTHWEST THROUGH MEDINA COUNTY INTO WAYNE COUNTY. OTHER STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED ACROSS CUYAHOGA COUNTY. A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE MEDINA/WAYNE COUNTY LINE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. TORRENTIAL RAIN WAS REPORTED IN NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY WHICH PRODUCED SOME STREET FLOODING AND FLOODED YARDS. THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. AREAS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN SHOULD BE ANTICIPATED THAT MAY PRODUCE SOME SMALL STREAM FLOODING AND STREET FLOODING. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GABRIC
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:48 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
OHZ004-007-082000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON CANTON OH 347 PM EDT TUE JUN 08 1993 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHERN OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. SOME ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND SOME STREET FLOODING HAS OCCURRED IN MACEDONIA IN NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY AROUND 230PM. MACEDONIA POLICE REPORT NO WIND DAMAGE WITH THE STORMS. AT 240PM RADAR INDICATES STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTAGE COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING... GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS. ALTO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark, Wayne | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Belmont, Harrison, Jefferson | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 9:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Monroe | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 12:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Coshocton, Tuscarawas | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Harrison, Jefferson | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Putnam | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 4:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Putnam | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 5:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Hancock | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 68 min |
| Jun 8, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Columbiana, Mahoning | 63 min |
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.