Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Mar 22, 1991, 10:44 PM EST for Warren County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 1991, 10:44 PM EST (03:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 1991, 12:45 AM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 1163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 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 230351 COR
FFWCVG
OHC165-230545-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH
1049 PM EST FRI MAR 22 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CINCINNATI HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST OHIO
...WARREN
AT 1035 PM EST THE WARREN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER REPORTED CREEKS
WERE OVER THEIR BANKS AND ROADS COVERED BY WATER.
AT 1040 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED RAIN HAD MOVED
OUT OF SOUTHWEST OHIO. HOWEVER WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED THERE
WILL BE RUNOFF FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHERN
WARREN COUNTY.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS 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.
JN
CORRECTED TO CHANGE THE TYPE OF WARNINGWhat 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, Mar 22, 9:11 PM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-230400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 910 PM EST FRI MAR 22 1991 A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA FOR SMALL STREAM FLOODING UNTIL 11 O'CLOCK THIS EVENING. A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE TRI STATE FOR TONIGHT. AROUND 9 O'CLOCK THIS EVENING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED SOUTHWARD ALONG THE WESTERN BORDER OF OHIO... SOUTH TO LEXINGTON IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND THEN FURTHER SOUTH TO BOWLING GREEN IN SOUTHERN KENTUCKY. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS BEGINNING TO TAPER OFF OVER SOUTHEAST INDIANA AS THE BACK EDGE OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS ENDING FROM THE WEST. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH THE RAINFALL WAS COMING TO AN END RUNOFF WILL BECOME A PROBLEM ...MOSTLY OVER SOUTHEAST INDIANA...AS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAVE MOVED OVER THE AREA FOR THE PAST TWO HOURS. IF YOU ARE DRIVING AT NIGHT ...PLEASE BE WARY OF STANDING WATER OVER ROADS AND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS. ALSO...IF YOUR HOME IS IN THE VICINITY OF A LOW LYING CREEK BED PLEASE BE ALERT TO -RAPIDLY RISING WATER AND BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MEDLIN
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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.