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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 28, 1993Van Wert County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1993, 7:04 AM EDT for Van Wert County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1993, 7:04 AM EDT (11:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1993, 10:00 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Van Wert County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 111 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1440 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1291 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jun 28, 5:50 AM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery	44 min
Jun 28, 2:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Van Wert	41 min
Jun 28, 3:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Allen, Van Wert	58 min
Jun 28, 4:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Van Wert	2 hr
Jun 28, 5:23 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Mercer	2 hr
Jun 28, 9:42 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Shelby	2 hr
Jun 28, 1:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke	69 min
Jun 28, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery	60 min
Jun 28, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Miami	61 min
Jun 28, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Preble	61 min
Jun 28, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Greene	60 min
Jun 28, 2:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Clinton, Highland	50 min
Jun 28, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	63 min
Jun 28, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone	33 min
Jun 28, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Bracken	58 min
Jun 28, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pendleton	69 min
Jun 28, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mason	68 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1993 Every flash flood warning in 1993

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.