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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Cleveland, OH

January 28, 1994Washington County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jan 28, 1994, 12:24 AM EST for Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 28, 1994, 12:24 AM EST (05:24 UTC)
Expired
Jan 28, 1994, 8:00 AM EST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Washington County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 149 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1994-01-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1994-01-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 313 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
313 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
350 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCAK 280526
FFWCAK
OHC013-111-167-281300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
1224 AM EST FRI JAN 28 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...S...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...BELMONT COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...MONROE COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
HEAVY RAINS...SNOWMELT AND ICE JAMMING WAS CAUSING FLOODING IN THE
WARNING AREA THIS MORNING.
 
ANM ICE JAM ON CAPTINA CREEK NEAR POWHATAN WAS FLOODING SOME ROAD IN
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
 
AT 1210 AM THE MONROE COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED SR NEAR SARDIS FLOODED.
 
THE WASHINGTON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED FLOODING ON SR 26 THIS MORNING.
 
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
RLB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 28, 12:24 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEBelmont, Monroe8 hr
Jan 28, 5:00 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEGuernsey7 hr
Jan 28, 5:42 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEHancock, Seneca, Wyandot4 hr
Jan 28, 5:50 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCLEOttawa, Sandusky, Wood4 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.