Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Apr 13, 1994, 12:23 AM EDT for Huron County, Ohio. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 1994, 12:23 AM EDT (04:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 1994, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Huron County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 368 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 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 130424 FFWCLE OHC077-130530- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1223 AM EDT WED APR 13 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ...HURON COUNTY AT 1220 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST HURON COUNTY FROM NORTHERN RICHLAND COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR AND HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMATER. HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORM FALLING ON ALREADY SATURTED GROUND IS ALSO LIKELY TO PRODUCE FLOODING. THE CITY OF NEW LONDON IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AN>D VERY HEAVY RAIN. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. GERARD
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, 9:57 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
OHZALL-130900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 955 PM EDT TUE APR 12 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A PORTION OF WESTERN OHIO UNTIL 3AM EDT AND THE REMAINDER OF OHIO EXCEPT SOUTHEAST OHIO UNTIL 5AM EDT. SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE CINCINNATI...DAYTON...FINDLAY... TOLEDO...CLEVELAND...COLUMBUS...ZANESVILLE AND YOUNGSTOWN. WARM MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WAS IN PLACE ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY THIS EVENING AND A COLD FRONT WAS MOVING THROUGH INDIANA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ALONG THE FRONT THIS EVENING AND WERE MOVING INTO WESTERN AND SOUTHERN OHIO. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS THE STATE TONIGHT. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE STATE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 10:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Coshocton, Tuscarawas | 63 min |
| Apr 12, 11:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 66 min |
| Apr 13, 12:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage, Summit | 60 min |
| Apr 13, 12:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 67 min |
| Apr 13, 12:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 57 min |
| Apr 13, 12:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 57 min |
| Apr 13, 12:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Lorain | 62 min |
| Apr 13, 12:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 62 min |
| Apr 13, 1:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Henry | 30 min |
| Apr 13, 1:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Trumbull | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 2:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 30 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1994Every flash flood warning in 1994
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.