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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 16, 1993Ripley County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 1993, 10:57 PM EST for Ripley County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 16, 1993, 10:57 PM EST (03:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 1993, 2:00 AM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ripley County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1993-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2651 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1993-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2651 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.8
Supercell composite
9.3

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 8:44 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNFranklin, Ripley2 hr
Aug 16, 9:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNRipley56 min
Aug 16, 10:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNRipley58 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.