Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jan 9, 1998, 1:04 AM EST for Stark 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, 1:04 AM EST (06:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 9, 1998, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 090605 FFWCLE OHC151-091200- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 104 AM EST FRI JAN 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN OHIO ...STARK COUNTY AT 103 AM EST...CLEVELAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN OVER EAST CENTRAL OHIO. THIS AREA OF RAIN WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. BETWEEN AN INCH AND A INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS STARK COUNTY WITHIN THE PAST 6 HOURS. AN ADDITIONAL INCH TO AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE BY 4 AM. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT I<S 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. BARJENBRUCH
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 52 minutes 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, 12:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Morrow, Richland | 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
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.