Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Apr 12, 1994, 3:52 AM EDT for Huron County, Lorain County, Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 1994, 3:52 AM EDT (07:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 1994, 7:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Huron County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Medina County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 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 120757 FFWCLE OHC077-093-103-121100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 352 AM EDT TUE APR 12 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ...HURON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO ...LORAIN COUNTY...MEDINA COUNTY URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING IS LIKELY EARLY THIS MORNING OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHERN OHIO. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER AREAS OF NORTHERN OHIO EARLY THIS MORNING. DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED THAT OVER 1 INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE MIDNIGHT OVER A LARGE PORTION OF HURON COUNTY...IN SOUTHERN LORAIN COUNTY AND MEDINA COUNTY. LAW ENFOREMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT WATER WAS COVERING SOME ROADS IN THESE 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. 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, Apr 12, 3:47 AM EDT, 5 minutes before
OHZ023-033-041-PAZ007-013-120830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YOUNGSTOWN OH 245 AM EDT TUE APR 12 1994 THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING THROUGH THE MAHONING AND SHENANGO VALLEYS OVERNIGHT. AT 240 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS FROM ERIE PENNSYLVANIA BACK TO MANSFIELD OHIO. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS LINE OF SHOWERS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN DEADLY LIGHTNING... WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. AS THE GROUND IN THE MAHONING AND SHENANGO VALLEYS IS ALREADY NEARLY SATURATED...THIS RAINFALL MAY CAUSE FLOODING PROBLEMS. IF YOU LIVE IN A FLOOD-PRONE AREA...BvE ALERT FOR ANY TROUBLES THAT MAY ARISE. TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. VEENEMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 4:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit, Wayne | 4 hr |
| Apr 12, 4:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 4 hr |
| Apr 12, 4:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 4 hr |
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.