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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 1992, 5:20 PM EDT for Gallatin County, Grant County, Kentucky. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1992, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 3612 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 102121
FFWCVG
KYC077-081-102215-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH
520 PM EDT MON AUG 10 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CINCINNATI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT
AND A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTH KENTUCKY
...GALLATIN...GRANT
AT 515 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CINCINNATI SHOWED A
CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE LARGE
HAIL FROM WARSAW KENTUCKY TO JUST NORTH OF DRY RIDGE.
THESE STORMS WERE SLOWLY DRIFTING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
FLASH FLOODING AND HAIL OF ABOUT 1 INCH IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE
THUNDERSTORMS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
MANUELWhat 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, Aug 10, 3:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
OHZ005-102100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTON OH 302 PM EDT MON AUG 10 1992 THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILE PER HOUR WERE MOVING ACROSS THE MIAMI VALLEY. AT 300 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE CITY OF GREENVILLE IN DARKE COUNTY TO THE CITY OF EATON IN PREBLE COUNTY. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE CITY OF DAYTON IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY AND THE CITIES OF TROY AND PIQUA IN MIAMI COUNTY. KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AS SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. TIPTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Gallatin, Grant | 55 min |
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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.