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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 1992, 5:59 PM EDT for Franklin County, Madison County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 1992, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1992, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, OH, Madison County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 KCMH 162159 FFWCMH OHC049-097-170000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH 559 PM EDT THU JUL 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN CENTRAL OHIO ...FRANKLIN COUNTY...MADISON COUNTY AT 555 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS LINE HAS PRODUCED TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND 1 INCH IN LESS THAN AN HOUR ACROSS FRANKLIN AND MADISON COUNTIES. THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 315 AND BROAD STREET IN COLUMBUS WAS REPORTED CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING...AND OTHER STREET FLOODING HAS OCCURRED. RADAR INDICATED MORE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS MADISON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COMBINED WITH THE RAIN WHICH HAS ALREADY OCCURRED THIS AFTERNOON AND THE ALREADY HIGH STREAM LEVELS FROM THE RAIN EARLIER IN THE WEEK WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS. 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. GERARD
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, Jul 16, 2:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
KYC019-043-089-OHC087-WVC011-099-161915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 208 PM EDT THU JUL 16 1992 AT 205PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND SATELLITE INDICATED A SMALL AREA OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE TRI-STATE. THESE STORMS WERE OVER EASTERN GREENUP..NORTHERN BOYD AND NORTHEAST CARTER COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS EAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY DOW8NPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE INTO SOUTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO AND NORTHERN WAYNE AND CABELL COUNTIES OF WEST VIRGINIA DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. END/DG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 8:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Madison | 3 hr |
| Jul 16, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Madison | 54 min |
| Jul 16, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Union | 58 min |
| Jul 16, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Delaware, Franklin | 61 min |
| Jul 16, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Marion | 61 min |
| Jul 16, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fairfield, Licking | 55 min |
| Jul 16, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fairfield, Pickaway | 60 min |
| Jul 16, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 59 min |
| Jul 16, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Hocking | 65 min |
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.