Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Apr 25, 1993, 3:17 PM EDT for Preble County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 1993, 3:17 PM EDT (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1993, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Preble County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 858 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 442 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 427 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDAY 251928 COR FFWDAY OHC135-252315- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTON OH 317 PM EDT SUN APR 25 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DAYTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO ...PREBLE COUNTY SMALL STREAM FLOODING IS LIKELY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN PREBLE COUNTY INCLUDING THE CITY OF EATON. PEOPLE LIVING NEAR SMALL STREAMS SHOULD LISTEN FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFOMATION AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. HEAVY RAINS HAD BEEN FALLING OVER MOST OF THE MIAMI VALLEY SINCE 11 AM EDT. THE HEAVIEST AND MOST PERSISTENT RAINS HAD FALLEN OVER PREBLE COUNT ESPECIALLY THE CITY OF EATON AND SOUTHWARD. WATER WAS PONDING IN FIELDS AND ROADWAYS WITH A FEW ROADS IMPASSIBLE DUE TO HIGH WATER AS REPORTED BY THE PREBLE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT. SOME STREAMS WERE ALSO REPORTED NEAR OR ABOVE BANKFULL. THE RAINS HAD BEGUN TO DECREASE IN INTENSITY AT 315 PM EDT OVER PREBLE COUNTY. HOWEVER LIGHT RAIN WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 6 PM EDT. THE CONTINUATION OF THE RAIN WILL ONLY ADD THE ALREADY PONDING OF WATER AND PUT STREAMS ABOVE BANKFULL. 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. $$ TIPTON ...TOKE OUT ACTIVATION OF EBS LINE...
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, Apr 25, 1:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
OHZ008-251900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 150 PM EDT SUN APR 25 1993 A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAUSING HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUED TO APPROACH CINCINNATI AREA. AT 130 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 15 MILES WIDE STRETCHING FROM DAYTON OHIO...TO SEYMOUR INDIANA 60 MILES WEST OF CINCINNATI. THIS LINE HAS INCREASED SLIGHTLY IN SPEED SINCE 1230 PM EDT. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR WHILE STORMS WITHIN THE LINE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS LINE WAS PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN A 115 MILE WIDE BAND THAT EXTENDED FROM MARION OHIO 60 MILES NORTH OF DAYTON...TO TELL CITY INDIANA 125 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CINCINNATI. THE AREA OF RAIN WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE GREATEST THREAT OF THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS ITS SLOW MOVEMENT...WHICH WIL>L RESULT IN LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE AWARE OF STANDING WATER ON ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY TO THE NORTH AND TO THE WEST OF CINCINNATI WHERE THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL CONTINUES TO OCCUR. DIAN
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 2:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
OHZ005-252215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTON OH 211 PM EDT SUN APR 25 1993 SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE CAUSING SOME PONDING OF WATER ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE MIAMI VALLEY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR HAS INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PREBLE AND MONTEGOMERY COUNTY SINCE ABOUT 11 AM EDT. CURRENTLY AT 210 PM EDT THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS COMING FROM AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER GREENE COUNTY. WATER WAS PONDING IN LOW LYING ARES IN BOTH PREBLE AND MONTEGOMERY COUNTIES AS REPORTED BY A WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE AND HAM RADIO SPOTTERS. PONDING WILL LIKELY TAKE PLACE IN GREENE COUNTY BY 3 PM EDT. THE^ RAINS WILL GRADUALLY END ACROSS ALL THE MIAMI VALLEY BY 6 PM EDT. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA IN CASE FLOODING BECOMES SERIOUS. TIPTON
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 2:49 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
OHZ008-252000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 250 PM EDT SUN APR 25 1993 A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAUSING HEAVY RAINFALL WAS MOVING THROUGH THE GREATER CINCINNATI AREA. AT 230 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES WIDE STRETCHING FROM LONDON OHIO 20 MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS...TO MILAN INDIANA 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF CINCINNATI. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WERE JUST NORTH OF CINCINNATI. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR WHILE STORMS WITHIN THE LINE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS LINE WAS PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN A 125 MILE WIDE BAND THAT EXTENDED FROM CARDINGTON OHIO OR 120 MILES NORTHEAST OF CINCINNATI...TO LEITCHFIELD KENTUCKY 125 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CINCINNATI. THE AREA OF RAIN WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE CINCINNATI TRI STATE...PEOPLE SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE THREAT OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. BE AWARE OF STANDING WATER ON ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS. WITH THE COLD FRONT PASSING THROUGH CINCINNATI AT 230 PM EDT...THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE WITHIN THE GREATER CINCINNATI REGION UNTIL ABOUT 400 PM EDT...WITH LIGHTER RAIN SHOWERS CONTINUING INTO THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES ON THIS HEAVY RAIN EVENT. DIAN
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.