Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this flash flood warning at Jan 4, 1993, 8:34 AM EST for Williams County, Ohio. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 4, 1993, 8:34 AM EST (13:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 4, 1993, 10:30 AM EST
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Williams County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 548 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 570 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 KFWA 041336 FFWFWA INC003-033-087-113-151-OHC171-041530- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 834 AM EST MON JAN 4 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WAYNE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST INDIANA ...NORTHERN ALLEN COUNTY...DEKALB COUNTY...LAGRANGE COUNTY ...NOBLE COUNTY...STEUBEN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OHIO ...WILLIAMS COUNTY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTH PARTS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO. IT INCLUDED PLACES NORTH OF A LINE FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF FORT WAYNE TO 10 MILES NORTH OF DEFIANCE OHIO. RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO FALL IN THESE AREAS. AT TIMES...THE RAIN HAS BEEN HEAVY. IF YOU OBSERVE FLOODING MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. WITSAMAN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH 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. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TOT HIGHER GROUND.
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 4, 4:14 AM EST, 4 hours 20 minutes before
OHZ001-041315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 412 AM EST MON JAN 4 1993 ...THERE IS FLOOD WATCH FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT... SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE PAULDING...DEFIANCE AND BRYAN. THIS WATCH MEANS A FLOOD THREAT EXISTS BECAUSE OF EXPECTED HEAVY RAIN AT TIMES TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE FIRST PLACES TO FLOOD WOULD BE SMALL STREAMS AND ALSO STREETS AND ROADS IN CITIES AND TOWNS. KEEP ALERT TO TAKE QUICK ACTION...IF FLOODINOCCURS OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. WITSAMAN
Special weather statement, Jan 4, 4:18 AM EST, 4 hours 16 minutes before
OHZ001-041315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 412 AM EST MON JAN 4 1993 ...THERE IS FLOOD WATCH FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT... SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE PAULDING...DEFIANCE AND BRYAN. THIS WATCH MEANS A FLOOD THREAT EXISTS BECAUSE OF EXPECTED HEAVY RAIN AT TIMES TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE FIRST PLACES TO FLOOD WOULD BE SMALL STREAMS AND ALSO STREETS AND ROADS IN C ITIES AND TOWNS. KEEP ALERT TO TAKE QUICK ACTION...IF FLOODING OCCURS OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. WITSAMAN CORRECTED AND RESENT FOR APPARENT TRANSMISSION TROUBLES
Special weather statement, Jan 4, 6:21 AM EST, 2 hours 13 minutes before
MIZ001-007-008-041515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 620 AM EST MON JAN 4 1993 ...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... WIDESPREAD RAIN...POSSIBLY HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL FALL THIS MORNING IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. THIS RAIN WILL BE FALLING ON GROUNDS THAT ARE CLOSE TO SATURATION. FOR THIS REASON...A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE NILES...CASSOPOLIS AND THREE RIVERS. A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITHIN THE WATCH AREA. THE PLACES MOST SUSEPTIBLE TO FLOODING WILL BE LAND ADJACENT TO RIVERS AND STREAMS. UNDERPASSES AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS WILL ALSO BE SUSEPTIBLE. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. DRIVERS ARE URGED TO AVOID DRIVING THROUGH STANDING WATER. GRIFFIN
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.