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Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Dec 30, 1990, 4:28 PM EST for Mason County, Kentucky; Brown County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 30, 1990, 4:28 PM EST (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 30, 1990, 7:30 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mason County, KY, Brown 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
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 482 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 463 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 302133 COR
FFWCVG
KYC015-081-161-187-OHC015-310030-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
URBAN FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH
432 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CINCINNATI HAS ISSUED A
URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTH KENTUCKY
...BOONE...GRANT...MASON...OWEN
IN SOUTHWEST OHIO
...BROWN
AT 420 PM EST THE COUNTY SHERIFFS REPORTED STREETS WERE BEGINNING TO
BE COVERED BY WATER. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED RAIN
COVERING MOST OF SOUTHWEST OHIO AND ALL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY. THE RAIN
WILL REMAIN IN THE AREA FOR AT LEAST TWO MORE HOURS. THE WATER WILL
LIKELY RISE ON STREETS AND COULD CAUSE BASEMENT FLOODING.
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.
JN
CORRECTED TO DROP SMALL STREAMWhat 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, Dec 30, 12:50 PM EST, 3 hours 38 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-302000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OHIO 1250 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990 ...FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHERN KENTUCKY TODAY... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES FOR ALL OF THE TRI STATE FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON. ALSO A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE TRI STATE THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. AT 1230 PM RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS MOST OF SOUTHWEST OHIO...ALL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA. FREEZING RAIN WAS FALLING OVER WESTERN INDIANA THROUGH ILLINOIS. RAIN WILL CHANGE TO FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA AS TEMPERATURES FALL. RAIN FALLING ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA WILL CAUSE STREAMS AND CREEKS TO POSSIBLY BECOME BANKFULL. PEOPLE LIVING NEAR FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD STAY ALERT TO RISING WATER LEVELS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RA}DIO AS CHANGING WEATHER MAY REQUIRE FURTHER WARNINGS OR ADVISORIES CONCERNING RAIN...FREEZING RAIN...SLEET OR SNOW. KEENEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 4:28 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone, Grant, Owen | 3 hr |
| Dec 29, 9:14 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Mercer, Van Wert | 3 hr |
| Dec 29, 9:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Darke | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 12:01 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Auglaize | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 12:29 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Darke, Mercer, Van Wert | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 12:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Crawford, Morrow, Richland | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 12:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ashland | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 3:16 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Van Wert | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 3:16 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Allen, Hardin, Logan | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 5:07 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ashland, Richland | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 5:07 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Crawford, Morrow | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 9:25 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Morrow | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 9:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Greene, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 9:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Champaign | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 10:17 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Butler | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 1:08 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Butler | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 2:53 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clinton, Warren | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 3:16 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Highland | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 4:08 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Logan, Miami, Shelby | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 4:08 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Allen, Auglaize, Hardin | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 4:08 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Darke, Mercer, Van Wert | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 4:08 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Montgomery, Preble | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 4:08 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Greene | 4 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.