Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Feb 15, 1990, 4:17 PM EST for Butler County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 1990, 4:17 PM EST (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 1990, 8:15 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler County, OH
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 523 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 539 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 KCVG 152118
FFWCVG
OHC017-160115-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH
417 PM EST THU FEB 15 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CINCINNATI HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST OHIO
...BUTLER
AT 410 THIS AFTERNOON BUTLER COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED THAT
SEVEN MILE CREEK AT SEVEN MILE WAS FLOODING ONTO THE ROAD. AT NEW
MIAMI THE MIAMI RIVER WAS AT BANKFULL. MORE RAINFALL IS LIKELY
FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING AND NIGHT ONLY ADDING TO THE PROBLEM.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP 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
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 2:09 PM EST, 2 hours 8 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-152200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 207 PM EST THU FEB 15 1990 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LARGE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN AREA THAT WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY AT 200 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN ON THE HEAVY SIDE THROUGHOUT THE MORNING AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE AFTERNOON AROUND THE AREA. SINCE EARLY THIS MORNING OVER AN INCH HAS FALLEN AT THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...MOST OF IT FALLING FROM 400 AM UNTIL 1100AM. A LARGE AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL WAS FROM CINCINNATI WEST TO INDIANAPOLIS AND THEN SOUTHWEST TO EVANSVILLE IN INDIANA. THERE WERE A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS FROM CINCINNATI TO LOUISVILLE ALONG THE RIVER. THE AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL BE EVENTUALLY OVERSPREADING THE ENTIRE TRI-STATE BY 300 PM THIS AFTERNOON. THIS RAIN WILL CONTINUE INTO THE LATE AFTERNOON BEFORE DECREASING IN INTENSITY. MOVEMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WAS TO THE NORTH AROUND 55 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER ONE-HALF TO THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF RAINFALL BEFORE 500 PM THIS EVENING COULD EASILY PUSH LOCAL STREAMS AND CREEKS ABOVE BANK FULL. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS WITH YOUR CAR...THIS IS DANGEROUS...ALSO...IF YOU LIVE BY A STREAM BE ALERT TO SUDDEN RISES IN THE WATER LEVEL. MEDLIN
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 3:09 PM EST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-152300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 310 PM EST THU FEB 15 1990 AT 3 PM THE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN OVER SOUTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY. SOME OF THIS RAIN WAS HEAVY. THE RAIN WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST 50 MPH. HERE AT THE AIRPORT RAIN FALL TOTAL SO FAR TODAY IS ABOUT ONE AND A HALF INCHES. THERE HAS BEEN STREET OR URBAN FLOODING IN PARTS OF WESTERN CINCINNATI. SOME STREAMS IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY ARE NEAR BANKFULL. A SMALL STREAM IN IN BOONE COUNTY IN THE BURLINGTON AREA WAS OVER THE BANKS IN SOME AREA. FOUR FEET OF WATER WAS REPORTED BY THE CINCINNATI POLICE IN PLEASANT RIDGE AREA OF INDIAN MOUND AND CYPRESS WAY AT 310 PM. END JR THE ENTIRE TRI-STATE BY 300 PM THIS AFTERNOON. THIS RAIN WILL CONTINUE INTO THE LATE AFTERNOON BEFORE DECREASING IN INTENSITY. MOVEMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WAS TO THE NORTH AROUND 55 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER ONE-HALF TO THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF RAINFALL BEFORE 500 PM THIS EVENING COULD EASILY PUSH LOCAL STREAMS AND CREEKS ABOVE BANK FULL. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS WITH YOUR CAR...THIS IS DANGEROUS...ALSO...IF YOU LIVE BY A STREAM BE ALERT TO SUDDEN RISES IN THE WATER LEVEL. MEDLIN
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 3:10 PM EST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-152300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 310 PM EST THU FEB 15 1990 AT 3 PM THE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN OVER SOUTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY. SOME OF THIS RAIN WAS HEAVY. THE RAIN WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST 50 MPH. HERE AT THE AIRPORT RAIN FALL TOTAL SO FAR TODAY IS ABOUT ONE AND A HALF INCHES. THERE HAS BEEN STREET OR URBAN FLOODING IN PARTS OF WESTERN CINCINNATI. SOME STREAMS IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY ARE NEAR BANKFULL. A SMALL STREAM IN IN BOONE COUNTY IN THE BURLINGTON AREA WAS OVER THE BANKS IN SOME AREA. FOUR FEET OF WATER WAS REPORTED BY THE CINCINNATI POLICE IN PLEASANT RIDGE AREA OF INDIAN MOUND AND CYPRESS WAY AT 310 PM. END JR CORRECTED FOR CODING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Feb 15, 4:53 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Warren | 5 hr |
| Feb 15, 6:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Butler, Hamilton, Warren | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.