Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jan 9, 1998, 12:12 AM EST for Morrow County, Richland County, Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 9, 1998, 12:12 AM EST (05:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 9, 1998, 6:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Morrow County, OH, Richland County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 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 090512 FFWCLE OHC005-035-043-075-077-083-093-103-117-139-169-091100- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1212 AM EST FRI JAN 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAM EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...ASHLAND COUNTY...CUYAHOGA COUNTY...ERIE COUNTY ...HOLMES COUNTY...HURON COUNTY...KNOX COUNTY...LORAIN COUNTY ...MEDINA COUNTY...MORROW COUNTY...RICHLAND COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY AT 1210 AM DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN MOVING IN FROM CENTRAL OHIO. RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD BE BETWEEN AN INCH AND A INCH AND A HALF BY 4 AM. SINCE THE GROUND IS SATURATED THIS RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ROADS AND STREAMS. SOME BASEMENTS MAY ALSO FLOOD. 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.
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
Local storm report, Jan 8, 11:12 PM EST, 1 hour before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NWSFO CLEVELAND OHIO
1112 PM EST THU JAN 08 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM CANTON OH FLOODING
01/08/98 STARK FLOODING ON SOME CITY
STREETS FOR A TIME.
0830 PM PA FLOODING
01/08/98 CRAWFORD SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED
BECAUSE OF HIGH WATER AND
A BASEMENT FLOODED.The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 12:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Lorain | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 12:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 12:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland, Holmes, Knox, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 1:04 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Stark | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 1:59 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Portage, Trumbull | 5 hr |
| Jan 9, 1:59 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake | 5 hr |
| Jan 9, 1:59 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Summit | 5 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.