Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jan 4, 1993, 9:30 PM EST for Crawford County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 4, 1993, 9:30 PM EST (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 1993, 12:30 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 108 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 340 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 KCLE 050234 FFWMFD OHC005-033-083-117-139-050530- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MANSFIELD OH ISSUED BY CLEVELAND OH 930 PM EST MON JAN 4 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ...ASHLAND COUNTY...CRAWFORD COUNTY...KNOX COUNTY ...MORROW COUNTY...RICHLAND COUNTY AT 915 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED RAIN COVERING MUCH OF OHIO WHILE AN AREA OF FAIRLY HEAVY RAINS WERE INDICATED OVER NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INCLUDING THE MANSFILED AREA. THE RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTEED SOME UNDERPASSES FLOODED AND NUMBER OF ROADS CLOSED. STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE ALSO RUNNING HIGH AND COVERING THE ROADS. URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED UNTIL ABOUT 1230 AM TUESDAY MORNING. HEAVY RAINS IN THE AREA WILL GRADUALLY TAPER OFF AROUND MIDNIGHT. 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.
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, Jan 4, 4:55 PM EST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-042345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 455 PM EST MON JAN 4 1993 A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE CINCINNATI AREA TONIGHT... AS RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL LATE THIS AFTERNOON. AT 450 PM...WIDESPREAD AREAS OF RAIN AND EMBEDDED SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS AND LOUISVILLE AREAS EAST THROUGH THE DAYTON AND CINCINNATI AREAS TO NEAR COLUMBUS AND LEXINGTON. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL PERSIST OVER ALL OF THE CINCINNATI TRI-STATE AREA THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. RAINFALL REPORTS FROM OBSERVERS AND GAGE NETWORKS AROUND THE AREA INDICATE THAT ABOUT ONE-HALF INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER MUCH OF THE CINCINNATI AREA SINCE THE RAIN BEGAN LATE THIS MORNING. HOWEVER...AN INCH OF RAIN WAS REPORTED AT SHARONVILLE IN THE NORTHERN SUBURBS. TRAFFIC PROBLEMS HAVE ALSO DEVELOPED AS THE RAINS HAVE CAUSED PONDING OF WATER ON MANY AREA ROADWAYS. RUSH HOUR MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING... AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION AS DELAYS ARE CERTAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR ADD ITIONAL UPDATES ON THIS WET WEATHER SITUATION. MSL
Special weather statement, Jan 4, 6:45 PM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-050145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 645 PM EST MON JAN 4 1993 A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE CINCINNATI AREA TONIGHT AS RAIN...OCCASIONALLY HEAVY...CONTINUED TO FALL EARLY THIS EVENING. AT 640 PM...WIDESPREAD AREAS OF RAIN AND EMBEDDED SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS AND LOUISVILLE AREAS EAST THROUGH DAYTON AND CINCINNATI OVER ALL OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF OHIO AND OVER ALL OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE RAIN WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PERSIST OVER ALL OF THE CINCINNATI TRI-STATE AREA THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE EVENING. RAINFALL REPORTS FROM OBSERVERS AND GAGE NETWORKS AROUND THE GREATER CINCINNATI AREA INDICATE THAT NEARLY AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER MUCH OF THE AREA SINCE THE RAIN BEGAN DURING THE LATE MORNING HOURS. THE HEAVIEST AMOUNTS OF RAIN HAVE OCCURRED THUS FAR OVER NORTHERN PARTS OF DEARBORN AND HAMILTON COUNTIES...WHERE CLOSE TO 1.2 INCHES OF RAIN WERE OBSERVED AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS. PEOPLE IN LOW-LYING AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF FLOOD-PRODUCING RAINS...AND SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN AND USE CAUTION AS PONDING OF WATER WILL BE FOUND ON AREA ROADWAYS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR ADDITIONAL UPDATES ON THIS WET WEATHER SITUATION. MSL
Special weather statement, Jan 4, 7:37 PM EST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
OHZ005-010-050230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTON OH 734 PM EST MON JAN 4 1993 A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN CENTAL OHIO AND THE MIAMI VALLEY AT 730 PM. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF INDIANA...THE WESTERN HALF OF OHIO AND MOST OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY. THE AREA WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF WESTERN UNTIL LATER TONIGHT. THE STANDING AND PONDING OF WATER HAD BEEN REPORTED ACROSS WESTERN OHIO AND MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS OF STANDING...PONDING OR RUNNING WATER. SINCE THE DEPlTH OF THE WATER MAY BE MUCH GREATER THAN EXPECTED. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS WESTERN OHIO TONIGHT AND THE RAIN AND THE THREAT OF FLOODING WILL TAPER-OFF AND END. TORRENCE
Special weather statement, Jan 4, 7:46 PM EST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
OHZ005-010-050230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTON OH 734 PM EST MON JAN 4 1993 A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN CENTRAL OHIO AND THE MIAMI VALLEY AT 730 PM. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF INDIANA...THE WESTERN HALF OF OHIO AND MOST OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY. THE AREA WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF WESTERN UNTIL LATER TONIGHT. THE STANDING AND PONDING OF WATER HAD BEEN REPORTED ACROSS WESTERN OHIO AND MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS OF STANDING...PONDING OR RUNNING WATER.v SINCE THE DEPTH OF THE WATER MAY BE MUCH GREATER THAN EXPECTED. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS WESTERN OHIO TONIGHT AND THE RAIN AND THE THREAT OF FLOODING WILL TAPER-OFF AND END. TORRENCE ...CORRECT SPEELING IN FIRST PARAGRAPH...
Special weather statement, Jan 4, 8:45 PM EST, 45 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-050345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 845 PM EST MON JAN 4 1993 A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE CINCINNATI AREA TONIGHT AS RAIN...OCCASIONALLY HEAVY...CONTINUED TO FALL THIS EVENING. AT 840 PM...WIDESPREAD AREAS OF RAIN EXTENDED FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS AND LOUISVILLE AREAS EAST THROUGH DAYTON AND CINCINNATI TO NEAR COLUMBUS AND THE WEST VIRGINIA BORDER. THE RAIN WAS MOVING EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL PERSIST OVER ALL OF THE CINCINNATI TRI-STATE AREA THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH SINCE MIDDAY HAVE BEEN COMMON ACROSS THE CINCINNATI AREA...WITH 1.2 INCHES OF RAIN MEASURED FROM NOON TO 830 PM AT THE GREATER CINCINNATI AIRPORT. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE OCCURRED OVER THE EASTERN SUBURBS OF CINCINNATI...WITH 1.72 INCHES MEASURED AT ANDERSON TOWNSHIP DURING THAT TIME. THE CONTINUING RAINS EXPECTED TONIGHT MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS...AS WELL AS LOW-LYING AREAS. PEOPLE LIVING IN OR NEAR THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF FLOOD-PRODUCING RAINS...AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING AROUND THE AREA TONIGHT AS STANDING WATER WILL BE ENCOUNTERED ON AREA ROADWAYS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR ADDITIONAL UPDATES ON THIS WET WEATHER SITUATION. MSL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 9:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ashland, Knox, Morrow, Richland | 3 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.